One of America's biggest root problems: Scots-Irish culture

[theHandpuppet]

61. This article is so full of historical flaws I don't even know where to begin

First: The Scots-Irish folks who settled the Appalachians didn't migrate down from Maine and New Hampshire. A majority of them came in through ports in the Philadelphia area, migrated to western PA and then down the spine of the Appalachian mountains.

Second: The author confuses Southern culture with Appalachian culture. They are NOT the same, not in language, customs or history.

Third: Central and Southern Appalachia were the strongholds of Southern Unionists. Much of that was due to the fact that many mountain people felt the Confederacy was formed solely to uphold the interests of agrarian slaveholders in the flatlands. It was, yes, a matter of geography that led to great differences in the two cultures.

I could go on but one could write an entire thesis punching holes through this article. There are Scots-Irish throughout the country and yes, in New England and in the South, too, but there are as many reasons for why they came here as there are differences in how these communities developed depending on where they settled.

What a bunch of hooey and poor scholarship.