How The Scot-Irish Transformed The American South

[@paulwatson2499]

Im Scots Irish in the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina.. My family has been here since the 1700's.. We were poor but proud people who can survive anything...

[@lervish1966]

@@johnlavery6116 Clover hat

[@normbograham]

same. but my family did integrate, before it was popular.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

Proud of what, exactly?

[@paulwatson2499]

@@Jean-rg4sp proud that our gene pool hasn't been contaminated by people like you.. anymore questions?

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Being poor is long standing Scottish tradition.

[@Capitalist_Pig314]

You make us sound terrible. We are much more civilized now. I have not bitten an ear off in years.

[@bamaraiderable]

And you can write a complete sentence in proper English! How can you sleep at nights? I'm from the Cornelius clan on me mudder's side and was born in Alabama.

[@Capitalist_Pig314]

@@bamaraiderable you were right fairly well for someone from Alabamastan. I live over in Georgia myself. But my people are mainly from Northwestern South Carolina.

[@bamaraiderable]

@@Capitalist_Pig314 "you were right fairly well"--LMAO ROLL TIDE! Good joke.

[@bamaraiderable]

@bastiat4855 Tell us about Chicago, bubba.

[@Grenadier311]

@bastiat Gary, Detroit and other hellhole economically depressed areas in your backyard aren't exactly utopian models.

[@kcirtapelyk6060]

I’m part Scots-Irish on both sides of my family and I gotta say that this video definitely explains a lot of our quirks and traits.

[@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz]

I wonder what other ethnic group in the US it describes… hmmmnnn…

[@martthesling]

Is this why I'm so passionate and ready to fight but extermly loyal and care about things like honor?

[@Sedgewise47]

🤔*Yet*-America doesn’t have an “Orange Order” presence…

[@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz]

@@Sedgewise47 Africa does. Somehow.

[@stevejohnson978]

@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagzWhich countries? All 54?

[@williamolliges2622]

Let’s not forget that the large majority of Medal of Honor recipients have this cantankerous lineage. They may make uncomfortable neighbors, but they’re handy to have around when the chips are down.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

The Scots were also the cannon fodder used to build the British Empire - particularly in India, bravely marched to the deaths in many battles. So much for the benefits of the Act of Union.

[@Oxnaforda]

​@@DavidNotSolomon no more cannon fodder than the other british regiments.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@Oxnaforda that is not quite true. The English soldiers were paid better than the Scots and also had more choice - the Scots were commanded to go by their Lairds or they would be kicked out of their villages. One of the problems in Scotland was that the Scots were renters on their land which was legally owned by the Lairds. This is what led to the Highland clearances when the lairds decided they didn't the men anymore after the Act of Union. The Scots were also preferred by the commissioned officers as they were better behaved then the often unruly English. One general is recorded as saying after a slaughter of Scots "don't worry, there are plenty more where they came from".

[@Valhalla88888]

Yes the SAS and Commandos all founded by Scots IE David Stirling and Lord Lovat

[@eastcorkcheeses6448]

​@@DavidNotSolomoninteresting in the gaelic highlands , the laird didnt really own the land - he held it from or on behalf of his people - and didnt really inherit it from his family or get granted it by a king , Under the english system the lord held the land on behalf of the king , and people rented off him .. Either way it was a protection racket .. the peasants paid and fought for who the lord ,laird or who ever said .. But in the old system you pretty much had to live amongst your people - or the people would just replace you

[@lewistoyemcginley7398]

Ulster is a province not a county. It actually contains 9 counties.

[@Peter-sl6mf]

The only place in Ireland the planters did not subdue was Monaghan

[@captainteeling7002]

​@Peter-sl6mf Scotstown! Drum! Drum contains an orange Lodge, accordion band, Free Presbyterian Church!

[@irishboer7124]

​​@@Peter-sl6mfMonaghan was a non-conformist plantation.Connacht was the only part of Ireland not planted nor conquered, and fleet as deer the Normans ran...

[@captainteeling7002]

@irishboer7124 North Connacht,Leitrim and Sligo both planted, Jamestown in Leitrim, Manorhamilton are both planters towns, GoreBooths of lissadell, Wynnes of Sligo, Middletons of Coolaney, Palmerston of Mullaghmore, Jones Henry of Streedagh all Planters who brought their Tennants with them, Henry's, Taylor, Barbours, Moffat, Hamilton

[@OnlyGrans69]

​@@irishboer7124 Let us not forget why Ulster was planted first & with so much urgency.

[@InvisibleCitizen]

My fraternal ancestors are Scott-Irish. I share Haplo Markers with 70% of the inhabitants of Southern Ireland. I am stubbornly hardheaded and have never backed down from a fight no matter how many opponents. When I was taken into the military I was chosen for special missions. My dogged drive to successfully prosecute the mission no matter the situation. I was always evaluated as, “does not deal well of authority.” On the other hand I could read and write before entering kindergarten. I am a retired very successful advanced engineer. What else can I say; I am complicated!

[@OzarkHillbilly-p5u]

The Scots-Irish handed George Washington ( a Tidewater Cavalier) and the Continental Army one of its first victories. The Battle of King's Mountain.

[@kendavis8647]

Did Scots-Irish fight at the battle of Cowpens in South Carolina?

[@gracebeckwith1256]

My McFadden grandfather and his sons fought with George Washington.

[@LastRebel1978]

From the town where sycamore shoals exist. First settlement and town council outside the 13 colonies in Indian territory. Where the over mountain men gathered before going to kings mountain. I live on powder branch road where marry Payton lived who made gunpowder the stopped by on the way and filled up their musket bags. I believe I’m a melungeon which is tri racial white, negro, Native American but I just look like a white hillbilly and sound and live like one too. One of the last rebels and proud of it. It’s a shame how weak hillbillies and Christians have become because we used to thrive without society and were proud humble people. Now most are just government dependents.

[@willieclark2256]

@@kendavis8647yes same men

[@penneyburgess5431]

❤

[@serialcarpens290]

Kind of explains a lot. Lived my whole life in extreme southern Indiana. My mom’s side is Scotch Irish and we lived a rough, but great life surrounded by cousins, aunts, and uncles. We lived with my papaw at his house and he could build anything and rig anything up, but he didn’t let anything go so he always had stuff sitting outside the house. He was a great man who loved us very much, but he had a temper that was like none other. I’ve always had trouble conforming. I try my best, but my temper and stubbornness get the best of me a lot of the time. I would do anything for my family, but it takes a long time to gain my trust. People generally get the wrong impression of me when they first meet me. I can be standoffish, but I care deeply and want to help people. I knew my entire life I was going to be a Marine and so that is what I did. I served for eight years and did three pumps to combat. I still train and love shooting and being prepared. I really enjoy music and singing. I can play guitar. I think this wasn’t by accident. Proud of where I came from and really enjoyed this from Dr. Sowell the good and the bad. Even though we have our tendencies, we are not defined by them. Trust in the lord and he will show you the way.

[@LarsLiveLaughLove]

That stereotypical stubbornness is a unique character trait

[@RavenclawFtW3295]

I bought a book about the Scotch-Irish once when I visited the Smokies. It has all the same information about these people, and a lot more. Theirs is one of the most fascinating stories in American History.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

I've heard of them but I didn't know why they were called irish scotch and I never knew that they lived in the part of the poor appellations and they didn't speak correctly. I live in the appalachian Mountains, but I live to the east of the abolations in Roanoke in SW VA, & I have heard people talk like this but not any white people but a few of the black people in my area of the South and that's why I was. Wondering if their families had dissented from the slaves or they lived near the irish scotch. I'm not aware of the Irish scotch ever hatched labor because they were so poor but it's possible. They lived dear a lot of the american black families who maybe were either free or slaves at the time because some people i've heard talk like that. I've never thought of the people from the Appalachians as being way you see but I know that many of them are poor but there's not like there are ample jo about opportunities in that area at all. People there may have done a little bit of farming but fishing and farming and maybe a little hunting was about all. They did but they never really. We're very super educated people and I don't know why people called them rednecks, But I can understand cause i'm from virginia and everybody in the south is called A redneck amongst a bunch of other names.. My daddy's people were really Country and their accents were hilarious but that's just because they were really country but they didn't talk That way but they were scottish. Some of the things my grandmother used to say cracked me up..

[@manymusings]

I'm Irish, Scottish, and Cherokee. My great grandparents spoke strangely like that.

[@mconnors1733]

They got screwed over by the Crown. Promised both land in Ulster and the right to maintain their Presbyterian faith. But once they settled in Ireland, the (Anglican) Church of Ireland tried to force them to convert. It was an ugly situation and led many to emigrate to America. Where they naturally distrusted central government.

[@John-gg6op]

What is the name of the book? If you still have it

[@ron.v]

@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 Thanks for sharing. We he was talking about people speaking so much like blacks in the south, I think he was talking about southerners in general and tidewater whites in particular. I learned from this video that those accents or speech habits came from England. I've always believed that. The Scots-Irish had a different accent, more like what you called "really County" accent. Listen to the difference in the way folks from southeastern Virginia, near the coast, talk and the way people in western North Carolina and east Tennessee talk. The people from The Blueridge and Smokies sound more what we always called "Hillbilly." That's my mother's folks. They talk that way. They say "Hyar" for "Here" and "Haint" for "Haunt." My dad's folks had more of a southern brogue and said "Rathah" for "Rather" and "Munt-gumray" for "Montgomery." Thats' an southeastern tidewater accent used by the wealthier southern whites in the old days. Like Dr. Sowelll described, their accents can be traced to their English geographical origins. Few of us speak with either accent anymore but all ya gotta do is Listen to Dolly Parton or drive up into the Smokies and listen to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians to hear that old Scots-Irish "Hillbilly" accent. They all sound that way still.

[@patrickegan5669]

I always learn something very helpful from Dr. Thomas Sowell. He is a gem.

[@juliebarnett9812]

Aye. 👍🏼

[@AsheetBull]

Please pass this on to Mr. Sowell: My 6th Great Grandfather on my Dads side, named Hendrick Pannebecker was recruited by William Penn to be his land surveyor shortly after Penn was given a land grant by the King of England to start the colony of Pennsylvania in 1683. Penn recruited my Grandfather in the Rhineland region of Germany to migrate from Flomborn, Germany to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1686 to help found the colony of Pennsylvania as his land surveyor. He was one of the original Quakers to settle Pennsylvania. Germantown, Pennsylvania (present day Philadelphia) was the original birthplace of the antislavery movement. The first antislavery literature in American history was a 2-page document denouncing slavery that was drafted by Quakers from Germantown, Pennsylvania. Slavery was later officially banned within the Quaker society in 1780, 4 years after 1776. Germantown also held a key battle led by George Washington in the revolutionary war, and was the location of the first bank in the United States. His later progeny John Pannebecker (my 5th Great Grandfather) had a brother named Peter Pannebecker who housed George Washington at the family estate from September 26th to October 8th, 1777 as he prepared his battle plans for the Battle of Germantown during the revolutionary war, and also served as the hospital for the wounded throughout the battle of Germantown. The estate is still there to this day, and is a historical landmark in North Philadelphia called Pennypacker Mills. The battle of Germantown was lost by Washington, but this was one of the critical turning points of the Revolutionary war. The battle of Germantown (along with the battle of Saratoga) was the battle that inspired the French Court enough to finally throw their support behind George Washington and the Continental Army, which would be absolutely necessary in the defeat of King George and the British. I am very proud of my family’s heritage in knowing that they fought for freedom and also were among the first ranks to call for the abolishment of slavery. I am fully committed to doing whatever I can to fight off this tyranny we are now facing. I believe we can and will beat these people. Thanks for sharing this video…

[@givepeaceachance940]

What tyranny?

[@n0denz]

What is the tyranny we are now facing?

[@ranjankana5929]

​@@givepeaceachance940apathy

[@bearcingetorix6326]

Democrats and Republicans rushing to inquisit "Tyranny? We deposed Trump! Our agents persecute him forthwith! How dare you impugn our rule!"

[@fljetgator1833]

@@givepeaceachance940 seriously? 😆 Under this puppeteer administration our United States is pretty much being ruled by globalists. This is fact as evidenced by the 🤡's NOT following OUR Constitutional law.

[@clintjohnson7023]

I am Scots- Irish and Cherokee ancestry with family for the Appalachia to the Ozarks and to Texas

[@johnlavery6116]

Greetings from one part of you heritage......Ireland.

[@kosmokritikos9299]

In a word: Hillbilly.

[@Lightbeam015]

Same here

[@harrywaters7718]

As an Ulster-Scot still living in Ulster (Northern Ireland) I can confirm that God (Protestant evangelical), guns (military tradition), whiskey (Irish), motor sports (motorbike road racing in Ulster)…..all very southern american traditions, but very very similar to the likes of County Antrim in Ulster even today. The one thing that you don’t get so much of now in Ulster-Scots community in Northern Ireland is the traditional music they brought to America with the fiddles etc. The Ulster-Scots in Northern Ireland are more likely to be based in the towns and cities and so have lost a lot of the music traditions due to modern living and cultural/political ties to Britain. The Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland are a bit more rural and have held on to the traditional music instruments more than the Ulster-Scots. Thomas Sowell is way off the mark on a few things though. The Protestants of ulster were always renowned for cleanliness….it’s the Protestant ‘cleanliness next to Godliness’ thing. Even Catholics in Northern Ireland/Ulster used to joke about something being ‘more Protestant looking’ in reference to tidiness. Secondly, Sowell tries to explain the poverty of Appalachia as being because of the Scots-Irish culture. Surely it’s much more to do with the fact that they were frontiersmen who then settled in isolated rural mountainous areas. Obviously industry and modernity was slower to get there than if they were near areas of large population. The Ulster-Scots of Northern Ireland are now, ironically, the pro-British population of Northern Ireland. Although, they are also very pro-American, especially due to the US participation as UK ally in the world wars, and are proud of their links to so many Presidents.

[@sgabig]

Dr Sowell pointed out - using his terminology - that the "Celtic fringe" had started to become Anglicized & "civilized" (by WASP establishment POV) by the 19th Century & the onset of Industrialization

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

Wat u mean is there sectarian racist anti semitic kkk 🤮🤮🤮

[@robertolorenshaw9890]

Harry Waters is spot on about present day Ulster where I am now on vacation! Last Sunday the roads to Ballycastle were blocked because of a motorcycle race! I’ve never seen so many bikers in my life! Very Southern USA it would appear! I find Mr Sowell’s historical analyses absolutely fascinating although I am not in a position unlike some of you to make factual corrections. However his angle is so original as on cattle, butter and cheese! Brilliant! What I also find fascinating is that many of you recognize yourselves in these analyses. I don’t want to ‘racialize’ this discussion but as a white Brit do you think that, say, 40 years ago a black American scholar could be giving these lessons to white Americans?

[@JohnnysCoolStuff]

Scots were intentionally settled near the Appalachians as a barrier between the Indians and the rest of the colony. I suppose the Royal governors knew they were better suited than English Quakers.

[@coocoocachooglin]

Ya, I kind of winced at the comments on cleanliness in the video, I don't know who he was talking about, but all of my ancestors that I ever had any exposure to were very clean, even if they were poor as church mice. They didn't have much, but they took care of what they had, and made sure they and their children were bathed and dressed in clean clothes for the occasion - especially for church and school. My dear mother grew up in a dirt floor shotgun share cropper shack where they picked cotton from the time they were small, and she said her mother and father kept that place as clean as they could keep it given the circumstances.

[@Southernguitar74]

Scots Irish on both sides of my family. While I am sure that much of what Mr Sowell (I respect him very much)is truth, it is not exactly as I have known or experienced. I’ve never seen more hard working people than Scots Irish southerners. Crazy smart too, with tons of common sense, if not scholarly…Though we have many of those types as well. Looking at the old south and some of the architecture, it is something to marvel. Many were poor, though. My grandparents were very poor, but they worked from “can see to can’t see” and they managed. If anyone doubts the resolve, cleverness or work ethic of southerners, look at what they did from 1861-1865, while vastly outnumbered and outspent. They formed a most formidable military, government, their own currency, their own Navy, their own everything in very short order. Not to start any debate on the war, not my point at all, only saying the pluck of the south was and still is greatly underestimated. That’s OK by us. We are still very proud. Enjoyed the video. It is never a waste of time to hear this man speak. One of my favorite Americans of all time.

[@ubetterfold1]

They had to start working hard once we took away their slaves.

[@Makmurf]

Most did absolutely not own slaves.

[@xenonvoid1780]

​@ubetterfold1 who is this "we" you speak of? Don't take credit for the achievements of better men than you

[@ubetterfold1]

@@xenonvoid1780 Time to adjust your medication, bold truth-teller, nobody's "taking credit" for what people did in the 19th century. But I love how Democrats always hate to be reminded about how Yankee Republicans took away their slaves, so just making a humorous comment.

[@johannajones5543]

Architecture? Southern whites did not design nor build the south. That was done by enslaved people. Look at the architecture of Mali (Timbuktu), Iberian peninsula, Morocco, Benin, etc., prior to the colonisation of the “New World”. Also, there are multiple books and accounts written by white southerners, who said they did not want to work to live and preferred drinking and fighting. Sowell is correct in his statement about their laziness.

[@davidmcleod6032]

Thank you from trying to differentiate between the Scotch-Irish and Scots as well as the highlanders and lowland scots.

[@peterplotts1238]

This kind of thing is never touched on in secondary and higher education, to our detriment. This is utterly fascinating as a Southerner of mixed North Eastern United States, North European, and British descent. I only have to look around and consider my family's history to see what Sowell is talking about and know it is true.

[@srothbardt]

They stick to books which are okayed by state legislators. Narrow!

[@rexsteel156]

Mixed Northern European, northeastern U.S., and British….Are you stupid?

[@ZephaniahL]

David Hackett Fischer has written on them, and many other historians of folklore and society. If you look around a bit in colonial American history, there is plenty published.

[@mulekickhandmadeguitars8465]

Much like you, I wish I'd learned more about all this, but to be fair, our American history teachers had a whole lot to cover in the process of teaching the full extent of this nations' history.

[@peterplotts1238]

@@ZephaniahL Maybe I went through school and university at the wrong time. But I will take a look at David Hackett Fischer. Thanks.

[@kenttheboomer721]

My mom is Scotch-Irish. And anecdotally this info resonates as true. In fact I recently told my youngest son that I have an "insurrectionist" mentality. I always found it difficult to assimilate into corporate environments. As a result I am self-employed, obviously.

[@ronalddunne3413]

LOL, I know that one! It has always been so with me. And if I got too comfortable somewhere or in some milieu, it's always been time to move on...

[@tommas2674]

and yet they went into the trades working for construction companies, police and fire departments, hard working and civic minded, and oh the mines.

[@bigpuma444]

I’m honestly the same, I don’t acclimate to most work or professional environments, doing well in fields where I’m given free reign (currently working for USPS). Politically I’m Libertarian-Centre; hyper-individualist and wanting to detach from industrial society as a whole. It only makes sense that most of my free time is spent in nature, usually deep in the woods like our pagan ancestors, hahah.

[@PaulDoyle-s8e]

And yet Belfast was a very successful industrial city. These people built ships, aircraft, industrial machinery, a thriving linen industry, tobacco companies etc..They were also the ancestors of several American presidents. Not bad for such a lazy people.

[@mariedickey4976]

They definitely have that independent streak. Some of it is in my family.

[@tomtaylor6163]

I have heard experts on the Scots Irish say that if your family moved from Lowland Border Regions to Ulster and then to America your family was not playing bagpipes or wearing Plaid Kilts. If they came from the Highlands it’s a whole different matter. In other words people that moved to America from Ulster brought fiddles and whiskey with them . Not Bagpipes or Kilts

[@matthewbarry376]

Correct

[@maxvarjagen9810]

Lowlanders keep their kilts on the bed where they belong. Also spell it with a q.

[@williammackenzie6115]

@bastiat4855 The highland Scots threw off catholicism and became Presbyterian.the reformation of Scotland went from the Lowlands to the Highlands.

[@harrywaters7718]

True, but as an Ulster-Scot still living in Ulster, I can confirm that there are hundreds of Ulster-Scots bagpipe bands in Ulster. In fact, one of the most famous from Ulster is the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band, which has been the World Champion pipe band

[@jerrymyphone5849]

​@@williammackenzie6115wrong, large area's of the highlands and islands are still 99% catholic even till now.

[@DrGeorgePBurdell-USN1701]

Doing a ph.d. on the religious and cultural mixing of scots-irish, swabian/palatinate germans, cherokee, and french huguenots in northeast georgia Appalachia. Awesome, informative video!! Love Dr. Sowell!

[@MsLhuntMartinez79]

Wow! 😂 We have a few lines of French Huguenots in my family! They were from France & Dutch Belgium (and the Netherlands). Immigrated to Canada. Mixed in with French speaking American Indians up there. In the records they called some Métis. They got forced South to mostly Louisiana/Alabama and became Creoles/Cajuns. They were all Catholics (outwardly). Family names like Henry de Faveaux (Henry) & St. Leger pops up. We're in South Texas now. I have a Scottish line from Lords of Blair in Aryshire, Scotland (1400s and earlier). Also had a line of Scottish ancestors forced to Plantations in the Colonies for being Jacobites (backing the Stewart line of succession). Found them in: Dobson, David. (1984). Directory of Scots Banished to American Plantations. 1650-1775. & 'Scots in Canada: A History of the Settlement of Dominion from the Earliest Days to the Present Time'. & UK. American Loyalists Claims. 1776 - 1835. They served certain terms or allotment of years. Once the labor contracts/SLAVE contracts were up, they were labeled as "Free Whites" or "Free People of Color" on their documents. Some Scots and Irish were considered "People of Color". I have a line of Irish ancestors (1500) in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Their names are Magruder/Glasford/McGeachan. They later immigrated to Pennsylvania (1680 - 1750) as Irish Quakers. Have a German line (Kentucky, US), originally from Heidelberger, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (1500s) Greathouse = Grothaus/ Grotthuss The bulk of my other ancestors were American Indians forced off the Dawes Rolls 1800s. I have their documents. They were from tribes I never heard of like Nottoway, Sappony/Sapponi, Algonquin, Eastern Shawnee, a number of others. Many of them were Prisoners of War and signed labor contracts or promised fealty to the Colony by signing a sworn document. I also have a letter from an English ancestor who was forced into indentured servitude. Sir Justice Solomon Wright (1655- 1716) London, England. His documents come up. I have no African ancestry. I was hoping to find out something on my African heritage. I found out that I have none. SMH I'm extremely interested in your book! ~ Love from Texas 💪🏾

[@glenetzkorn4715]

can you discuss regards religious origin aspects seemingly from English Calvinism (originally Swiss). I have read that George Washington was grieved by these Southerners taking to lynching and torture of Tories who headed to Canada giving up their land and most possessions but allowed freedom to flee unharmed would besides being hung often times if pregnant cut opened to expose the fetus in the South. In general, Christian traditions often favored violent torture was a reality but at the time of American Revolution vague acceptance of differing combatants from Civilians was becoming accepted. Of course, since WWII the US returned to active torture all over the world as an Evangelical tradition being my suspicion.

[@MrGF1582]

Dr. Sowell, once again sir you have brought to light the "why and how?"! Educational, entertaining, informative and as a frankly, connecting! I, as a Scottish-American(not Scots-Irish, nor Scottish-Irish) with first origins to America in New Orleans via Glasgow, Scotland circa 1916, and find this ALL facinating!!! I'm an amateur anthropologist at best, I simply loved this walk through a part of the "why's and wherefore's" in just one of part of the American Journey. Thank you very much for giving us this great video.

[@JordanG-ds1ii]

What is the difference between Scots-Irish and Scottish- Irish?

[@michaelalbertson7457]

@@JordanG-ds1ii They are the same. Maybe he meant Scottish nor Irish.

[@jackieblue1267]

@@michaelalbertson7457 There are also Scottish people of Irish descent such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and people like Sean Connery and Billy Connelly.

[@patriciachadwick5658]

Very interesting indeed. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

[@thomashughes319]

Proud to be one of the "crazed" Scot/Irish from County Donegal.

[@TM-vq1bf]

Are there a lot of Protestants in donegal ?

[@thomashughes319]

@@TM-vq1bf Protestants in County Donegal are a sizeable minority of about 30%.

[@TM-vq1bf]

@@thomashughes319 interesting .

[@deegigidaugherty1578]

99.9%

[@surfrat8884]

Peterson in Dublin named one of their pipe series Donegal Rocky, I have a couple, great smoking pipes.

[@jfredmuggs56]

My ancestors were Scots- Irish, and border region Scots. We have always had a FIERCE resistance to "social betterment". Currently, it appears WE WERE CORRECT!!

[@JohnSmith-cz9om]

If ignorance is working, why change, right?

[@DerHammerSpricht]

@@JohnSmith-cz9om Klaus Schwab wants to breed lots more of you!

[@ivanoday4635]

@@jfredmuggs56 "Fierce resistance to social betterment" ... I pray that none but your kind make it into heaven. Heaven then would be worth the trouble!

[@Magravated]

Every time I watch a new Thomas Sowell video I learn something new. I'm Scot-Irish but I think my folks were very Americanized. They never really talked about anything to do with either culture. We were just Americans and we were proud of it, apparently like the Scots were proud. Now I know where I get it from. lol Thanks for posting this!

[@sharenerobertson5574]

Alot of folk still to this day feel the same passed down from their ancestors they won't speak of the suffering of days gone by. They people just like to burry things..... I'm sure if you took time to look yourself you will find your Scottish and Irish ancestors suffered horrifically... Came in the 1700 that during the highland clearance Jacobite rising ect!! Definitely not a good time to b scots or irish.... Enslaved families ripped from lands.. whole clans town and village burned down to ground, folk tried as witches for talking the ancient tounge! racism discrimination!! Our own language clothing and music outlawed!!

[@stanleyshannon4408]

@sharenerobertson5574 most of the Scots-Irish that moved onto the American frontier were more likely to have descended from the perpetrators of the racism than victims of it.

[@stanleyshannon4408]

The Scots-Irish seem to have left most of their own history at the water line when they arrived. They don't seem to have wanted to continue any part of it. That is why Sowell is largely incorrect in his analysis. You actually find very little evidence of any cultural continuity for them between the old world and the new other than a familiarity with fire arms, music, and whiskey.

[@kimgerber7663]

The commentary is interesting but I listen with a grain of salt. Southern white poverty, maybe Scots-Irish found it very difficult to improve their situation as the enslaved and subsequent free labor prevented poor whites to find suitable employment.

[@stanleyshannon4408]

@kimgerber7663 Industrialization and urbanization was less well developed in the South, for the same reason slavery existed. One did not cause the other. The reason had entirely to do with geography and climate, especially during the early colonial period. Industry became established early in the north because of the lack of good farmland and the nearness of the fall line to the coast. Agriculture became established in the South because the fall line was deep in Indian territory but good land was available to grow crops that could be exported back to Europe.

[@beaupierrebondurant5651]

Dr.Thomas Sowell is an American treasure.

[@PhilemonUmkaka]

Dr Thomas Sowell is a world treasure only recently discovered by some of us!

[@beaupierrebondurant5651]

@@PhilemonUmkaka true.

[@starrynight1329]

​@@PhilemonUmkaka I agree 💯

[@KarlGutowski]

Someone makes this comment under every TS video. Is it you?

[@APOKOLYPES]

​@@KarlGutowskino it's me

[@ddjay1363]

"I'm nae a Scot, I'm a Highlander" - Colin MacGregor

[@neilog747]

Semantic shift

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

Teuchters aren't scottish they are irish/Scandinavian/picts the outfit they wear was popular in Victorian age the same as the clan system, as a born and bred lowlander I don't consider these folk as Scottish despite the common belief. The Highland clearances was clearing them out as cattle thieves and brigands that brought trouble to real Scotsmen.

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

Anyone called Mac is of irish descent not scottish

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

@@StuartAnderson-xl4bo Actually, it is neither. It comes from neither Gaelic nor Gaeilge . . . . It is an approximation of sounds from those languages into English..

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

@TalorcMacAllan-ig4rm nope no picts were mac or mic or mc only after Dalradians came ie Macbeth Pictish / dalradian. You can't be told if the tellings wrong look at Pictish Kings list not a Maccy D in sight Nechtan son of Bridei was a typical example but without Mac. What is Scottish but also Scandinavian is my own name and others like it with Son or Sen at the end. In early times you were called after a trade or location Brundi of echt for example or Eran hunter because that was descriptive the other option.but more Scandinavian normally, Othar Uthredson or Othar son of Uthred. Told lol 😆 😂 🤣 😅

[@lemhanback9595]

The more I hear, the more interesting I find his perspective. Perhaps I should have been a scholarly individual myself. Although I would consider myself well read since I was an avid reader of novels, both historical and fictional. Unfortunately, after a few years spent enduring the "big city life". I returned to the relatively tranquil life in the country. Still would love to sit with this man for a discussion over a cup of coffee. I cannot help myself but truly admire and respect him.

[@poempadgett4664]

Agreed. Dr. Sowell’s voice is so euphonious to listen to, as well, imo.

[@ron.v]

I'm sure those who understand him most are those who respect him most. Being well read gives you a better perspective of what being scholarly means.

[@a2ndopynyn]

We're fortunate to have Dr. Sowell in this world at this time. Of that, there is no doubt.

[@MarcRobinson-do7gj]

@@poempadgett4664 this is an excerpt from an audiobook that is not read by the author. 😊

[@JGSmith82]

Novels are fiction by definition....if it's non-fiction book, then it's not a novel.

[@mongolmcphee7791]

To any of my American Cousins watching this who are struggling to imagine what their families/culture may have been like in these frontier days, I have some good news. You can now engage in a fully interactive recreation of these times by simply going out for a few beers in Boutchergate in Carlisle on any Saturday night. Choosing to do so on New Years eve will further broaden your cultural experience by allowing you an opportunity to visit a local hospital. Book now to avoid dissapointment.

[@GrottoGroveGroves]

Lol! We can get that here.

[@mongolmcphee7791]

@@GrottoGroveGroves I’m glad your keeping up the old ways. Best wishes from Scotland/sometimes England

[@midsouthirish1680]

Great video! My family came to N.Carolina and Tennessee vía the same route in the mid to late 1700’s and I’m proud to be the 8th generation of such a people. I already possessed most of this information from records passed down from my family.. However it’s great to hear it narrated and spoke on in a time when history is being erased. God Bless

[@annemurphy9339]

Scots and Irish are part of the lost Hebrew tribes.

[@sharenerobertson5574]

Dunno why! Not one of these documentaries are factually accurate or tell the whole truth about Scotland and Irish history!! They don't teach or speak about Scottish or Irish history in school only Mary queen of scots or the Irish potato famine they certainly do not tell you that famine was due to years of was and a way to remove a whole culture from it's lands by starving them out. the UK government have been washing over both Scottish and Irish history for 350 years! Has never stopped! C it was all about colonizing the Celtic nations and making them more English!! Your family fled because the scots and Irish where facing hundreds of years of prosecution being ripped from their lands enslaved looted colonized tortured murdered and rapped..... The Irish where the first slaves to land on American soil!! From the west! Fact! During the 1700's we had the Jacobite rising the highland clearances whole families burned to the steak! whole towns and village ls burned until there was nothing left! Irish and Scottish Gaelic where outlawed Scottish and Irish dress and music was outlawed! The wearing of kilts where outlawed.... Your people didn't come free the came after hundreds of years of being at war with England and forced from their lands they had no choice...... there was no home no family to go back to. You should look into your families history

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

Holler at me if you’re ever passing through Tater Valley or Maynardville. Appalachia shall remain.

[@MusicismoreImportant]

​@@LukeLongboneOfficialwhich state is that

[@JOHN----DOE]

As someone with one side of the family 90% Puritan descendants and the other largely western PA Scots-Irish, I can confirm the striking differences still existing, elaborated in the book Albion's Seed.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

People used to say that the first thing a German settler built was his barn; the first thing an English settler built was his house and the first thing that the Scots-Irish ("Irish") in Colonial America built was a still (right after he headed for the mountains). I'm not sure how true that was; but it was still frequently stated

[@Rowlph8888]

The 1stt thing an Irish and Scottishman did was build an alcohol distillery

[@Toria-dw6zc]

When anyone is building a house, they have to simultaneously put up a clothes line & get the garden ground ready for planting... & build the distillery if it's in the plan.

[@bamaraiderable]

@@Toria-dw6zc You're being too literal.

[@drwhatson]

@@Rowlph8888 The second was to drink it dry...

[@WtfYoutube_YouSuck]

after the still...comes the 1st Baptist Church....then the 2nd, immediately thereafter.

[@jintsfan]

“Of all the small nations of this earth only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind” - Winston Churchill

[@liberalbias4462]

Gay

[@Valhalla88888]

Churchill's wife was a Scot❤

[@dannychurch7223]

Churchill was prone to hyperbole and was an MP for a Scottish constituency.

[@maconescotland8996]

@@dannychurch7223 The only MP to be ousted by a Temperance Movement candidate - in Dundee.

[@ivanoday4635]

@@dannychurch7223 Churchill has Gaelic ancestry too from the McDonalds. Highland Scots. But trace that sea-faring barbarous clan back far enough you wind up in the Hebrides, and before that in Ireland-Scotland's Fatherland. To put it another way, Winston Churchill was Irish.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

Nice break down of the ethnic differences within the early American colonists and settlers. One story about the old South I would never forget, is how they would always be fording a river while Northerners would have already built a bridge.

[@surlyogre1476]

I think Dr. Sowell recounts that story in his book _Black Rednecks and White Liberals_ . It has been too long since I read it.

[@LonersGuide]

If you build a bridge, you'll just have to burn it to keep the riff-raff out.

[@bw3240]

Water in the south ain't that cold. I am just saying.

[@domingochavez2552]

Another interesting cultural difference south and north was IQ testing WWI soldiers, the black soldiers from the north performing better than the whites and blacks from the south. The fact that Caribbean people were majority business owners like the Asians are today in many inner city regions. Culture matters, not skin color. 🙏

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

@@surlyogre1476 That's where I got it from.

[@cartwrightworm1317]

I’m glad to learn about this. I kept hearing about the Scotch-Irish in school but I never knew why they were significant. I’m also a Yankee so I’ve always been confused by the south.

[@declanmulligan8251]

Scotch is a drink. Scots are an ethnic group that have migrated between the islands of Ireland and Britain for more than a thousand years. Changing religious affiliations on several occasions.

[@AdamosDad]

My mother's family came to the Americas, in 1622 and were of the House of Plantagenet. My fathers family from the riding clans of Scotland, they came here in 1858 and became coal miners. What a clash of civilization, in my own family. Thank you, Thomas Sowell, for these great historical commentaries.

[@raffyleal]

Wow. You were able to keep track. How many generations?

[@AdamosDad]

@@raffyleal Only 6 generation for my Dad, but the name goes back to a Sep of Clan Keith. As far as Moms family 9 generations to Jacob Cornell who came here in 1622, he then can be traced back to John of England.

[@raffyleal]

@@AdamosDad wow. I wish. I only met my great grandfather on my mother's side and hear stories but my people is spread out around the world.

[@AdamosDad]

@@raffyleal We are to, its great fun doing the research, but being related to a king won't get you a cup of coffee. The real blood line we all share, is back to Adam whose Father (Creator) was God. Be proud of your family bro.

[@B_Estes_Undegöetz]

On what ship was that your forebear came on? What was this persons name who was on the ship? What town and county did the man once live in and have to abandon to come to … which American colony was it? And you mean the Plantagenets whose line ended in 1485 at Bosworth with Richard III and the ascendency of the outsider Tudors? Do you know how your direct family members made (or kept) their money in the 150 years between their having been relatively sidelined by the loss of family status and fortune they probably suffered due the throne having been lost to the Tudors? Few people would have been openly calling themselves “Plantagenet”anymore by the 1620s since by that time the Tudors (helped by Shakespeare) had significantly ruined the reputation of the family as having been the cause of endless self-seeking unscrupulous civil conflict for half a century in the years before Henry Tudor killed Richard III and ended their squabbling in 1485. What did your ancestor hope to achieve in coming to America in the 1620s? Do you know if he was like many who came to the more southern colonies merely to seek gold and revive his fortunes quickly and to return to England and take back what he reckoned was “rightfully” his in mother England? Or establish a new life free of all the old aristocratic in-fighting and religious persecution like the Puritans who largely came with all their modest savings and hope to establish a new life forever in a new land (and mostly settled in the more northern colonies)? Interesting stuff!

[@ronaldharding3927]

40% of all casualties in US wars have been Scots-Irish (scotch is a whiskey, thank-you very much). We were pushed to the Appalachians because of the landed Brits who occupied the shephalah of the American coast. They stood as a buffer state against the Native Americans. They were mistreated at the end of the Revolutionary war when A Hamilton refused to give them their back pay for prosecuting the Revolutionary war. Their debt from not working their farms forced them to find other means which led them to produce whiskey out of the rye they were growing. Since it was much cheaper and easier to export to the populus coastal plain of the N AMERICAN continent, and more money could be exacted from the libation, that was the method those Scots intended to use to extract themselves from their dilemma of ruinous debt brought on by the fledgling government's reneging of their debt. Hamilton levied a "whiskey tax" which prompted us Scots to initiate the "Whiskey Rebellion" (our 1st civil war) which ended when Hamilton led a militia to put it down. It is for that reason that Scots withdrew from gentil society and have forever lived in distrust of revenuers/government agents. When you drive men away from society, they resort to their own practice to create society. Unfortunately, Celts are the meanest people God ever created which is the stock (along with a good deal of Viking blood) which doesnt bode well when isolated from civilization, hence the rough and tumble society. Lincoln was a scrapper and known to get into those tumbles. Point is that those men did what they had to do to survive when mistreated by the lily white Englishmen who hated them.

[@maconescotland8996]

No 'e' in Scots whisky - thank you very much 😁

[@Lady.B.ellinor4971]

You'll find those English you seem to hate have a lot of scot/Irish dna and you forgot to mention the Spanish, dutch, french and Germans in America you'll find they never liked many people and colonised many areas which they still own.

[@honestbroker7388]

There are some inaccuracies in this video. 1745 was a British civil war about succession. It was not an Anglo Scottish war.

[@BillyBasd]

It was also the Jacobite rising. The Scots were divided too. Many supported the exiled king, lost bad and became fugitives from the crown

[@ivanoday4635]

"Some inaccuracies" perhaps, but nothing as mind boggling as your assertion that the rising wasn't an Anglo Scottish war. It was A, not B. Scotland lost that war! The consequences were devastating, and are still being felt, even in America, to this day. But from where you're looking there was no such war. Unbelievable.

[@EnemyAce88]

I live in western PA. Half of my family tree is German and the other half is Scottish. This is so much more interesting when you also realize that the hills of Scotland and the hills of Appalachia were once part of the same mountain range. But yeah, over 95% of 1860 southerners were way too poor to afford slaves. They fought the Civil War to defend their homes, not to preserve slavery.

[@jeromemalenfant6622]

Their homes weren't at risk. The Union Army was there to restore the Union, not to burn homes. At least not at first. Many Southerners fought for the Union, or supported it; their homes weren't burned. The Southerners who didn't own slaves but nevertheless fought in the Confederacy did so to prevent a world in which a black man was considered the equal of a white man. Poor as they were, they still needed someone they could look down on. So they fought to preserve the slave society they lived in.

[@EnemyAce88]

@@jeromemalenfant6622 So it's your position that a dirt poor, illitierate farmboy from Mississippi was willing to die just so some rich guy in Virginia could keep his slaves?

[@Epidian]

@@EnemyAce88 You've already been told why. It's about having someone to look down upon. Like normal criminals need paedos to look down upon today.

[@nickhoward1049]

Some of the most Scots-Irish areas in the upland South, such as east Tennessee and West Virginia, were Unionist. The Appalachian counties that became Republican strongholds in the post-Civil War South were areas that were anti-secession.

[@theguy8729]

That 95% statistics is presented in bad faith. The percentage includes women and children, most of whom would not own slaves. If you measure slave ownership by household you'll find that 37% of Southern households had a slave.

[@sarahhale-pearson533]

This is an important piece of history that is sadly little understood. Good work, so well explicated.

[@allybally0021]

Try reading some real history books. Most of this is just not true.

[@lilafeldman8630]

Wow! What an incredible breakdown of the regional differences! I have lived my whole life in upstate New York. I have been wedged between all of these three cultures. He is very right about all of this.

[@leeannsellman4367]

We are a unique group. Always educating to listen to Dr. Sowell.

[@starrynight1329]

Every minute I spend watching this channel is gold. I never feel like it's wasted. I've been curious about long-term nutrient deficiencies in all of these people. How it affects their offspring and how far it reaches into the generations ahead. Has anyone seen such videos?

[@scwheeler24]

Yep. Relish it bc it’s disappearing this history. The elite world order don’t want us to have a history

[@sarahhale-pearson533]

The subject of epigenetics is very interesting, there are studies that go back to the depression, and the effects of starvation on subsequent generations, in terms of genetic changes and distortions caused. One theory being the tendency to obesity for those whose forebears suffered starvation. ‘Switching on’ the genes likely to make you hold onto fat, very stubbornly…,

[@starrynight1329]

@@sarahhale-pearson533 I've never heard of epigenetics. Thanks, I will look into it as it sounds very interesting.

[@jamesmills4850]

The Scots from Scotland were not, as you stated, loyal to England. Their loyalty was to The Crown.

[@michaelalbertson7457]

The crown then was George lll, an English king. So most Highlanders misguidedly fought with not so Great Britain. After all, they lost the war. 🙂

[@jj591]

​@@michaelalbertson7457 George wasn't English he was german . And he was far better king than he us portrayed in Patriot movies

[@lenormand4967]

@@michaelalbertson7457 That was a false flag operation to lure highlanders into a trap. Who planned it! Ieudomites, like the (((mother))) of prince Charlie, the (((McDonalds))), and other ieudomite lines secreted in (((concubines))) and their spawn.

[@kamlahari5369]

@@michaelalbertson7457 George was German - a foreigner. James & Charles Stuart were Scots who are indigenous to the UK

[@KPate-y5z]

England was "the auld enemy". Still is when it comes to football. 😂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧

[@Prfdt3]

Great people very proud to be among them.

[@JDawghasaTruck]

If you want to understand the complexity of American culture there is no better voice than Thomas Sowell!

[@mavisemberson8737]

But not the history of Britain :-)

[@davedemyan3302]

Many of my friend's ancestors were Scots/Irish. Several of them were Presbyterian ministers. The family valued reading and education. They came through, what is now Pennsylvania. The German immigrants said that the Scots always keep the sabbath ..... and anything else they can lay their hands on. The Scots said that the Germans were very upright people, which was caused by having a stick up their arse. A couple of his ancestors fought at the Cowpens.

[@willmc9612]

As an Ulster Scot living in Northern Ireland, I have always felt a natural kinship with middle America. Good, kindly people, loyal to their country, god-fearing and brave. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@elizabethhopkins7582]

Except to Catholics

[@ULYSSES-31]

True Scots-Irish/Ulster-Scots rebel against the crown.

[@DerbyHarrington889]

​@@elizabethhopkins7582catholics > protestants

[@7R4dicalized]

Jesus>mary

[@DerbyHarrington889]

@@7R4dicalized say whatever you want, the catholic church is the real church

[@johncmeade]

As an Appalachian Scotts Irish decendant, i dont think this tells the full story. The scotts irish i grew up with were and are among the most intelligent and hard working folks. They just dont care much what others think about them! They are very proud! They value self sufficiency! They love the land and their families and will fight to death for both! They long only for freedom and the autonomy to live and worship as they see fit. When America falls into ruin t they will continue to thrive because the things they value most land and family and freedom will still be there to strive for. We are the most misunderstood of all the people groups in the U.S. and perhaps the world. And when the communist take over the U.S. govt as they are doing, Americans who Value freedom will be very thankful for the scotts irish people! they are the folks that the autocratic despotic tyants and kings fear the most. They came to America for freedom! they fought for Freedom! and will fight for it again!

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

Johncmeade: You know friend, every word you expressed is true. Both sides my family are from that stock. It's so blatantly obvious, reading the comments, that people accepting this propaganda, and praising Mr.Sowell for enlightening them about their own culture, hardly knew anything about it. "My Grampa told me once....." "We have a Scots last name...." "I wonce read in a book...." That's all these people know about their own family history, let alone the history and culture of the Scots-, Irish. Then to give credence to Mr.Sowell for "making sense of why my family, acts the way it acts" sickens me. So, to reconfirm, every word you posted is absolutely true. Good luck to you, and I hope you fare well.

[@johncmeade]

@@KevinSmith-yh6tl Thank you and good luck to you as well.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

@@johncmeade 👍

[@johnnycarrotheid]

He gave it away with the "they were inventive" 😂 yea, just a bit haha. There's a reason why Scot/Eng merged into UK, Scots near ran everything/everywhere. 4 ancient Universities in Scotland, of the 7 in the British Isles. Schools in every village before the UK was a thing. Might explain why we invented near everything 😂

[@michaelconnor5378]

@@johncmeadeeven George Washington admitted truthfully that we would have lost the war without the Scot-Irish contribution to the Revolution. It was poetic justice that the group most persecuted back in Ireland were the backbone of the only army to defeat the British Empire

[@joemadden4160]

Excellent historical perspective. My family on my mother's paternal side was firmly Protestant(or so she was led to believe. It was mostly Ulster-Scots). In fact, my grandfather was an Orangeman and proud to call himself one(although the majority of his male descendants starting from early 19th century Ontario(Upper Canada) married Catholic women, including my grandfather, which is never recognized by the Orange Order). My maternal grandmother's name was Rivers(Larivière). My greater grandfather, James Porter, married a French-Canadian named Delilah Fountain(LaFontaine). In fact, one of my great uncles, one Louis Porter, was murdered by another great uncle, through marriage, one Hec(tor) Ellis, over a perceived slight, which could either be the death of my great aunt Mary, Louis's sister, or a feud based sorely on cultural differences. My great uncle Louis was not considered a decent man by the days standards(at least not by the reporter recording the circumstances of my uncle's murder in The Toronto Star). A woodsman who reputedly stole other peoples traps and furs and consistently hunted on others acreage, whilst reputedly threatening and bullying these landowners. This was early in the 20th century. In fact, there was even a play written about this feud/murder called Murder Pattern, which is occasionally produced even today. My grandfather also claimed to be related to O Henry(William Sydney Porter). There were, of course, many Porters within the greater English hegemony.

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

Cool story. It’s encouraging to see people learn about their heritage and keep these stories alive. Thanks for sharing.

[@joemadden4160]

@@LukeLongboneOfficial Thank you.

[@SpicyAfterbirth]

Remarkebly similar to my Ulster Scots grandfather who converted to Catholicism to marry my French Canadian Grandmother. He was ostracized by his Presbyterian family for many years. He was a hard man. 20 year Career Marine who fought in Korea and Vietnam.

[@joemadden4160]

@@kayvan9057 Agreed😁

[@joemadden4160]

@@kayvan9057 That's very interesting.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Most English royal dynasties were descended from marcher Lords (the marches were the borderlands between England and Scotland and England and Wales). They had the most fighting experience and had the best armies.

[@mmhthree]

I have done my genealogy, and I mainly found great grandfathers as county sheriffs as an occupation in my tree, and these families would marry other sheriff's families in a neighboring county, etc. My east coast USA roots from the 1600's were alot of English families that ended up having these same roots in alot of these same families over and over again. The Percy, Stanley, Neville, le Strange families, as examples of these English families who ran the counties, lived in castles, collected taxes, and kept laws in the area as best they could. I don't feel like this is rare, and a ton of Virginia families, for instance, come from these same families. Alot of them were sent to the USA to administer the colonies, and would be descendants of the royal families of England some 300-400 years earlier. Go back further, and they are the families who came over with William the Conqueror in 1066 to build the castles, and run England in those times. I see mainly in this video that they are portraying most Southerner's as coming from mainly poor backwards families, and I'm just not sure how factual that is. As I have said before I don't think my lines are somehow rare.. I think there are millions of us in America. There was alot of hardship in the South, and mainly that happened due to the Civil War and the destruction that happened here that the South didn't recover from for 50-70 years. They lived as best they could considering the circumstances.. I think mainly what Mr Sowell is talking about is what old Northerner's were writing as our Southern history. I think some of it may be factual, but some of it is exaggerated. Surely, there were dirt poor people up North who didn't live correct as an Englishman would..

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

every strong civilization was built by overlay of weak but plenty farmers with egalitarian society with more warlike unruly clanic horse cultures either hunters gatherers or herders to win you need numbers and more complex social structures of farming societies and healthy habits of freedom loving hard men of large plains constant struggles or from hard mountain conditions these cooperative and these adaptable cooperative only stay in dense cities building own local large structures adaptable only stay spread on large spaces keeping own isolated borders tightly or migrating regularly with nature serving own animals needs like ancient Greece made by clash of middle eastern ways and steppe people invasions whats even included in myths and their modus operandi of order at home and sending heroes to struggle in deadly lands of chaos outside islam even kept it with idea of house of peace and house of war around this mix was winning against pure cultures greek sayings even admit it they called Northerners brave but dumb while middleasterners clever but timid

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

​@@mmhthree because its inaccurate painting it black white without full picture

[@janwilson9485]

Many of the current nobility that aren't of 'Norman' ancestry and many wealthy and powerful families came from 'border rievers' families (English or Scottish border families) who fought and pillaged from each other with little alliegance to country of origin. They were useful to English and Scottish monarches at times (particularly times of war) but also caused problems to both countries. They were often used as skilled horse mercenaries, but were frequently proved untrustworthy, biting whichever hand was feeding them as their only loyalty was to their own family and riever allies.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

Mr Sowell I appreciate your books and what you tell us about history. My family were forced to go to Ulster. In the late 1700's my family came to America. They followed the Wilderness Road that Daniel Boone blazed the Cumberland Gap which is now a National Park. The first people that came with Boone or followed him went on into central Kentucky, close to Lexington. My family and others chose to stay in the eastern mountains. There were no slaves . There used to have 10-12 children. They had no use for slaves if they could've afforded them. When a child got big enough to hold a hoe or rake they helped the family garden . Those gardens and cemeteries were on hillsides. I still will not live near a branch of water (stream). Kentucky rain is like it was well over 200 years ago. The Cumberland River comes out of it's banks and will push creek water for a long distance. People tended to get married at a young age. I wish I'd written down what my father told me. Back to the settlers. Native Americans wouldn't live in 'Kaintuk.' They didn't live here but they hunted here. They called this area the "Dark and Bloody Ground?" We don't know why? Some settlers that moved in were killed by the Cherokee that lived over the mountains that's Tennessee now, I think the Scots-Irish that settled here just wanted to be left a long. My great grandfather x4 was a Baptist preacher who would go into the horse country of Kentucky and preach against slavery. A group that men went wrong him to keep him from being killed. My family were Lincoln Republicans. That grandfather x4 entered the Union Army when he was 61 years old. I guess traveling with the army was hard. He died right after the war ended. My grandfather's name was Abraham Lincoln Goodin. He used the initial, A.L. Right before the turn to the century coal was discovered. The people had grants for their land but they found out it didn't cover the minerals so courts or threats , many were cheated out of the pay for coal. That's when black and Italian people started coming to this part of the world. My daddy started work in the mines in 1924. He was 14 years ago. He worked until 1968. This is what pisses me off when people say hillbillies wonk. The mines didn't pay them much. In later years factories came in. They clothing. Many women worked for years in them. Later on they were moved to the Far East. I'm 71 years old, little trouble seeing, so if I miss a few years. In my lifetime I don't know of any racial problems. There was segregation at one time. I don't think therev was any trouble integrating the schools. That was before my older siblings went to school. A good story that no one seems to know but us is how Pineville Hospital was integrated in 1947. A sad story but an interesting one about coal miners. You know ever what color you are before you go into a mine, everyone comes out black.

[@peterortell6887]

Great detailed and eloquent commentary.

[@audreyroche9490]

English invaded Ireland and Scotland hunny they were forced to live there Henry 8ty changed reglion from Catholic to protestant so he could get a divorce so the English settlers were like English travellers they went were ever English invaded the orange order freemasonry devil worshipping

[@audreyroche9490]

Sorry English weren't forced to live anywhere they caused civil wars every were they went

[@audreyroche9490]

Lol protestants rule Scotland and Northern Ireland how u be forced to live in Northern Ireland and take advantage of the irish

[@encouragingword1172]

My father, a Murphy, and his brothers and his daddy, all had very bad tempers and demons. All were talented, hardworking, and my dad was very musically gifted. He loved booze but if he drank he really lost his crap. He whispered to himself when he would get in a mood and we all tried to stay out of the way, but it wasn’t always possible. He also had a fun side, a great sense of humor,was adventurous, made toys for us, taught us things. He could fix or build anything. He was very competitive. He was an excellent card player, an expert hunter, anything he set his mind to learn, he did. He quit school in 10th grade but was an avid reader of historical novels and westerns. He was so smart he wouldve made a great lawyer. He always had the last word on anything. I feared him. I loved him, admired him, and l miss him. He was Irish through and through.

[@MarkMooney...1958]

Sounds a lot like my old man and granddaddy's God rest there souls. God Bless from Tennessee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇺🇸🤙🏻

[@ron.v]

What a genius Thomas Sowell is. My family has been southern since they first came to Jamestown about 1613. My father's ancestors descended from what Dr. Sowell describes as 'tidewater elite.' They were the wealthy slave owners. My mother's ancestors were most likely the poor Scots-Irish, non-slave and non-land owners, at least one of which was one of those black slaves owned by someone according to DNA tests. I agree 100% with everything this master historian said, having researched much of it myself. This video is such a treasure of information describing my own heritage. Hat's off to the man who generously shared his knowledge with the rest of us.

[@ShrimpAlfredo-fu9do]

Thank you Dr. Sowell for this excellent and informative presentation on the Scot-IIrish. My missing link regarding American History has been eloquently explained and found. I remember my uncles and my dad mentioning that are family was part Scot-IIrish. I didn"t pay too much attention to this information. However, my aunt would quite often tell my mofher (chuckling) make sure you watch your kids.

[@johnhanson5943]

I’m from Yorkshire and have more in common with the lowland Scots / Northumbrians (ran up past Edinburgh in the past), Ulstermen (Scottish British in Ireland) and Danes than with most English people. Especially, when compared to southern English Norman types. Calling the original ancestors of the Empire in N.America Scots-Irish is meaningless. Most were Presbyterian pro-Reformation and most Protestant Christians / Loyalists. The Papist elements and in particular the Catholic Irish only came later - and not only moved South. However, New Rome (Washington DC’s original name) is a sign that the Masonic/oligarchic sects had also arrived with the pro-Reformationists via the Dutch East India Company. Check the flag of that company and compare it with the US one. God bless and defend the Reformation. It’s all that’s important.

[@ronwinkles2601]

Thank you for your very clear explanation. The majority of my ancestry came from Yorkshire from 1607 to 1640 to Jamestown, Virginia. Today, my brother and I carry strong characteristics of Viking ancestry. Our DNA reflects 70% British ancestry as compared to only 60% for the British citizen today.

[@ronrobertson59]

My Grand dad on my moms side was Ulster Irish my Dad's side of the family was Scots. We come from the Shenandoah vally of Virginia. My Dad's side of the family settled there in 1798 on a land grant. I'm a proud Scots Irish of the south. My late wife was of the same stock as my family.

[@davidanderson6055]

Excellent video. People focused on race like to describe "blacks" and "whites" sociologically and historically, lumped together. But the subcultures are so key. The difference religious beliefs alone played with the Puritans is amazing. I hear about "white settlers" causing problems with indians and it makes so much sense that it was the same subculture of white people that didn't respect property or laws where they had originated from either. Andrew Jackson's "Trail of Tears," even if he came from the elites of that society, makes so much more sense, as well as that absurdly high number of duels he was involved in. Man, this really ties together so many loose ends and explains so much.

[@davidanderson6055]

People may get mad at me being partisan, but it makes sense as well that Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat president...

[@JordanG-ds1ii]

It's interesting that Andrew Jackson is brought up in this case. The same Andrew Jackson who fought and successfully kicked the International bankers (federal reserve) out of the u.s. during their 2nd campaign.

[@henryc7548]

These traits run deep, im half scotch Irish/scottish and I never knew why my whole family was so combative, come to find out it’s in the blood

[@davidanderson6055]

@@henryc7548 Well, I think Thomas Sowell makes a pretty good point to say it's more likely a subculture than a genetic issue, since the same people turned out differently in different areas and with different beliefs. What state is most of your family from?

[@Karelwolfpup]

suppose it is natural to think "what use are laws?" when at least once every two or three generations there'd be a war in your family history where your home was raided, family press ganged, raped or murdered by one side, then to have the other side pressgang you into revenge once the inevitable backlash came.

[@scottmckay9535]

I've always lived in the southwest U.S.. But I've always had a feel for the South. Maybe this is why. I'm Scots-Irish.

[@raymondkidwell7135]

Scotch Irish are hillbilly ancestors though a decent number of last names are English as sowell says probably from border areas and a sprinkling of Cherokee and French fur trappers is the basis of hillbillies who originated in Virginia then moved west into Kentucky, west Virginia etc. Actual southern like Georgia, south Carolina etc is a bit different based on some region of England though there's a mix of scotch Irish southern is more civilized than Appalachia and more English than Appalachia. You can see red hair and scotch Irish traits pretty common in hillbillies still today.

[@midsouthirish1680]

My family traces back to County Roscommon and County Mognahan in Ireland and puts my family in Western NCarolina in 1740’s give or take. Then they kept pushing west into Tennessee and boom here I am. 8th generation with my son being the 9th. Lots of people have forgotten their cultural inheritance from what I’ve seen and history like this is a Gem. 🤙🏻

[@michaelalbertson7457]

@@raymondkidwell7135 So did some of those Scots Irish move to the Arkansas Ozarks?

[@bamaraiderable]

It's one thing to talk about the points of civilization exemplified by the northerners, but remember that the wealth of the North was built in large part through the hideous slave-molasses-rum triangle. All that wealth pouring into the north, especially the eastern seaboard, made affording the trappings of civilization much easier. The land was also richer, the heart of the South having poor soil and the ubiquitous red clay. It wasn't until cotton emerged as a huge cash crop that the South began to build more of these trappings of civilization. Another point that TS touched on was the "work ethic" of the Southerners. Have any critics actually lived there in the heat and humidity? We had mosquitos when I was growing up in Alabama, but can you imagine what they and other insects must have been like back then? And an even more relevant point is the issue of disease. I read an article that summarized a thorough study of the public health records of the deep south from the end of the Civil War through the early 20th century. Diseases such as hookworm, which causes lethargy and weakness in the affected, were rampant due to poor water quality. The article asked if this was a cause behind so many criticism of shiftless blacks and lazy, low-down white trash?

[@redtobertshateshandles]

I live in a fairly affluent Australian region, but we still have white trash. I'm sure that they feel superior to our black indigenous population.

[@BirdTurdMemes]

The soil of Massachusetts and Connecticut (by far the wealthiest and most productive part of colonial America) was and is garbage so their wealth cannot be blamed on luck in this department, as for the magical Atlantic triangle, reality is that most of these profits would have been concentrated in the tidewater region as that is where the cash crops were grown and the planters lived (which would create the loop of more slaves, more tobacco, more money, more slaves), so again slavery cannot be put forth as the reason for the old prosperity of the North-East.

[@bamaraiderable]

@@BirdTurdMemes "built in large part" was a qualifier that should have led you to the conclusion that it wasn't the ONLY source of wealth. Sheesh. Learn how to read.

[@michaelalbertson7457]

Newport, Rhode Island had slave ships dock there frequently sometime before and after the Revolutionary War. I would guess the coastal areas of New England profited from the slave, molasses trade, not in a plantation type way. I remember reading about it once.

[@mbluetraining]

The narrator does not appear to mention that the genealogy of the Scots Irish-who were originally from Scotland-was substantially influenced by Irish genes, having been descended from the Irish tribes that had moved to Scotland in the previous centuries!

[@lynnquillen4813]

Fascinating

[@Mary-m9n]

So not planters then, nice of you to admit that fact

[@js_guyman]

Interesting. I've never heard anyone mention that before. And I've seen lots of videos on the ulster scots. From my understanding, an English king promoted settlement of scots in ulster in order to have a Crown/English-friendly population and presence in Ireland... Had he specifically advertised the possibility of settlement in ulster to scots of Irish ancestry?

[@Mr4autiger]

and what made up those "irish" genes?

[@brucecollins641]

they were never influenced by irish genes. if anything.....archaeological/historical evidence points the other way. there was never any irish tribe moved from ireland to scotland.....a load o mythical made up nonsense..

[@randywise5241]

There was an old saying, "Where there is a mine, there was an Irishman, where there was a bridge there was a Scotsman." The southern way , "Live hard , work hard, and play hard."

[@tristarperfecta1061]

I'm currently living I'm TN and it's clear as day that hard work does not exist in 90% of the population. The people I am surrounded by must be exactly the same as they were during slavery and before apparrently. . Angry and hopeless.

[@tomtaylor6163]

More like the first thing English would do is build a Church, first thing the Germans did was build a Barn. First thing the Scots-Irish did was build a Still

[@tomtaylor6163]

I had some understanding of why certain areas of America turned out the way they did. But the fact that you had pre Scottish Enlightenment colonists never rang a Bell with me until this. Or the fact that English Colonists literacy had a lot to do with their Early Success in the Colonies. Also the fact that Southern Blacks would speak a dialect that has disappeared in England.

[@somethingelse9535]

Sowell's point was that they were allergic to hard work. Thus the south was in poverty.

[@randywise5241]

@@somethingelse9535 Those workers were treated like crap and "owed their souls to the company store". It was the mountain folk like the Beverly hillbillies he was talking about not all Irish and Scottish I take. The Irish were the first slaves brought to America.

[@haggismacphreedom]

My exwife's family was from Banbury in East Anglia. Her mother used to refer to me lovingly as, "That Awful Scotch Man". I have embraced the moniker, proudly.

[@davidcunningham2074]

fascinating and truthful. Sowell is one of the greats.

[@piscinaiv7937]

I didn't even know 'Scots-Irish' was a real thing but I recall older relatives (grandparent's age) in my childhood referring to our background as this. I thought they were just ignorant or didn't know exactly what region they were from but it turns out I was ignorant until I caught this video--I didn't know that Scots-Irish was actually a descriptor for a specific region and culture of origin. Great video thanks!

[@hyzercreek]

Scots-Irish is a recent invention, the modern spelling of Scotch-Irish

[@Winters_Folly]

​@@hyzercreekIt's Scotland not Scotchland hence the Scots in Scots-Irish, and as Mr Sowell stated originally it was Ulster Scots.

[@hyzercreek]

@@Winters_Folly Every country that ends in "land" uses a noun, not an adjective. Scot is a noun hence Scotland. It's England not Englishland. Switzerland not Swissland. And the Ulster Scots were in 1609, by the time they moved to America they had been in Ireland for 175 years that's 7 generations, and hence they were Irish, not Scots. Scotch-Irish, but definitely not Scots. The people who live in Northern Ireland now are Irish, just ask them. Northern Irish, Northern is an adjective. Not Northerner Irish.

[@DutchComedian]

@@Winters_Folly the spelling "Scotch" was occasionally used in both england and America to mean Scottish. Word usage is not always so tidy as modern standards would lead some to believe.

[@RANDALLBRIGGS]

@@Winters_Folly Ulster Scots is a term more often used in Canada than in the USA. It's an academically correct term. However, in the 13 colonies, Ulster Scots were usually called Irish. And in the 19th century, as Dr. Sowell noted, in the USA they were called Scotch-Irish to distinguish them from the Irish who began migrating to America because of the potato famine in Ireland. Scots-Irish is a modernism, not a term used historically. If everything named "Scotch" were changed to "Scots" or "Scottish," what would we call butterscotch?

[@mikenixon2401]

I am mostly Scot-Irish by blood line so I can admit that much of this presentation explains some of my past poor behavior. It seems the best contribution to America from the Scot-Irish was their music. On the other hand some must have been infunced to advance themselves into a more comfortable existance and professional trades.

[@hgriff14]

That and building literally all the infrastructure.

[@neilfrench6639]

Ulster Scottish on my mother's side My family also has family in New York state My ancestor was John suffern the town of suffern is named after him I visited the museum there and he was definitely on the American side in the war of independence

[@yvetteworrall8909]

This puts so much of Australian cultures into more nuanced perspective.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

It explains Bogans.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

it's not nuanced as he paints them evil and uncivilised as if changing everything was by default civilised except it inhumanely alters our lives so much we forget what it means to be a human and personal honor

[@Liethen]

@@szymonbaranowski8184 Also when he says that the Scotch-Irish had a habit of squatting on land that wasn't theirs both in the old world and new world that isn't quite fair. The Border Scots were imported to Ulster and given land seized from the Irish. That isn't squatting. About a hundred years later the English decided to confiscate most of the Ulster Scots farms, then declared them squatters, then burned their homes, then shipped them to America to serve as a buffer against native tribes. When the tribes would come raid they would first have to raid the Scotch Irish before reaching the rich people. Additionally when the Scotch Irish would clear land, build a farm, dig wells, make towns etc. The plantations owners would have the colonial government seize the land and sell it to them. Tobacco and cotton are highly destructive to soil so plantations often had to move further inland, easier to just rob a poor guy. So when they say they were squatting in America keep in mind that many of them were actually just having their farms stolen by the government.

[@harrywaters7718]

@@Liethen perfectly put 👍🏻

[@andersbjrnsen7203]

​@@szymonbaranowski8184yeah, it seems pretty exaggerated and oversimplified.

[@kidlast4154]

Im part scotch irish and live SW PA. and I was always told we were brought here as a buffer to soak up indian attacks...we were tough and badass basically 💪🤷🤣

[@eddiemclean7011]

You are corect in the buffer assesment. I recenently met a family that was given a large tract of land in eastern Ohio when it was unsettled indian territory. Despite the encroachment of civilization, taxes, etc their decendants managed to hang onto it and lived the typical clanish lifestyle of the area, having family live in large clusters on that rural land. These folks were poor by most standards, lived simple, and their county was mostly underdeveloped so opportunities were limitted. BUT... along comes the natural gas boom and their property became very valuable. With a gas well, leases, and profit sharing moneies they put up a very nice garage, made some home improvements and by my last contact the father and sons spent their days in the garage tinkering and building hot rods. Still living a simple, quiet, existance but with economic security. By my estimate, the American Dream.

[@jenna2431]

Having fled for their lives from the Church scourge of the Clans in Scotland three gens previous, my greats were comfortable merchants who came from Antrim to Pennsylvania in 1714, and their middle son left 30 years later, down The Great Wagon Road to south-east Virginia and ultimately into Tennessee. Their poverty stemmed from the church-sanctioned unfair practice of primogeniture and the land theft perpetrated by elitists land-grabbing.

[@skygrl37]

Exactly.

[@barbaraz5251]

Explains a lot of what I’ve observed but couldn’t explain. Grew up in the North with German heritage and moved South. My oh my! What a different culture!

[@abanico_rodilla]

They should really be referred to as the Ulster-Scots, not Scots-Irish. They were after all the decedents of the mainly Scottish Protestant 'Planters' who settled - usually forcibly taking land off the native Irish - in order to make it easier to govern and 'civil' for the King of England and Scotland. But from their inception in Ulster there was great distrust and hatred of the native Irish - and vice versa - the Scottish chosen to settle in Ulster were mainly staunch Presbyterian who had an innate distrust of the Catholic church and the Irish Catholics. There were often bloody uprisings and massacres by one side or the other over the centuries (Troubles, anyone?!). There would have been little mingling between Irish Catholic and Ulster Protestant Planter (Ulster-Scots) and they would not have referred to themselves in any way, shape or form as Irish. So the misnomer in the USA of 'Scots-Irish' gives a lot of Americans the mistaken belief that they are Irish when in fact they are Ulster-Scots - big difference. Ulster Scots would have been almost 100% Scottish (or northern English, as some planters were from the English border regions too).

[@mavisemberson8737]

Quite right. They moved into N Ireland from Scotland and the Isles. like the Hebrides impelled by land owners.

[@markwilkie3677]

As a Scot, I agree. Scots-Irish sounds to me like someone who has both Scottish and Irish parents, where with Ulster Scots I know exactly what is meant.

[@nicnaimhin2978]

The two “populations” in Ulster are not as easily differentiated as some Scots here like to think … the Rising of the United Irishmen 1798 was exactly that : a Rebellion by “Catholic ,Protestant & Dissenter” in the same cause together, against arbitrary British rule . Many were then forced to flee to such places as the US in the ‘98 Rebellions’ dreadful aftermath ….

[@stephenelliott6552]

It is a strange, but common enough, phenomenon in history whereby people who were badly persecuted in one area can move on to become the perpetrators of others in another area. And so it was with the Border Reivers. When England and Scotland were united the troublesome borders were "pacified." Often, for example, this entailed burning women and children alive in their shelters. And there were many other horrors. Then, at some stage, they were offered new lands in Ireland where they could flee their native persecution but yet enter conflict with others by the King's design. These became the the people of Ulster. Somewhere around this time, many Irish fled to what became America to flee persecution in their homelands. Many of these people persecuted the native American Indians. Irish scalping gangs were considered the best.

[@ostrichman]

theyre not Ulster-Scots - theyre scottish immigrants in Ulster. they do not belong to Ulster.

[@asanulsterman1025]

This article seems at odds with the known facts regarding the massive contribution of the Ulster-Scots to the making of America.

[@mlester3001]

I remember growing up in the fifties and sixties my parents mentioning that our background included Scots-Irish. Some of my personal habits I can see appear to align with what Dr Thomas describes here.

[@johnswoodgadgets9819]

I am a direct descendant of the early American Scotch Irish. I take pride in that heritage of law as a suggestion not a requirement, the tendency to fight a circle saw, the value of freedom over wealth, cussing and praying in the same breath, and becoming a gentle breeze or a hurricane as the situation dictates. Raise hell! We did! We and the Cherokee. Sometimes at each other and sometimes beside each other. You know you still strong culturally when the world tries to 'fix' you rather than 'preserve' you. Hehe!

[@midsouthirish1680]

Indeed sir! 👍🏻

[@saffronskies333]

Omg ...we are related

[@jeromemalenfant6622]

What is there in that heritage to take pride in?

[@midsouthirish1680]

@@jeromemalenfant6622 the fact we’re both speaking English is 1 . The fact you ask shows the level of darkness you congregate in.

[@jeromemalenfant6622]

@@midsouthirish1680 You proud of all the blacks your ancestors lynched?

[@trefthergom3085]

I'm starting to think that Mr. Sowell may have some deep seated prejudices against the Scot-Irish.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

it's interesting how unlike most of these characteristics the scots-irish side of my family is. The only part that really rang true is meal time variety and talk, but besides that they are artist in their free time, hard working and very literate (perhaps more so than the general population) people. Even going all the way back to the revolution, one Nathaniel Morrison was considered an exceptional fighter in the battle of long island flats, and considered a notable and great indian fighter (not my wording for those who would complain).

[@Southernguitar74]

Scots Irish on both sides of my family, and I find your assessment to be spot on. While I am sure that much of what Mr Sowell (I respect him very much)is truth, it is not exactly as I have known or experienced. I’ve never seen more hard working people than Scots Irish southerners. Crazy smart too, with tons of common sense, if not scholarly…Though we have many of those types as well. Looking at the old south and some of the architecture, it is something to marvel. Many were poor, though. My grandparents were very poor, but they worked from “can see to can’t see” and they managed. If anyone doubts the resolve, cleverness or work ethic of southerners, look at what they did from 1861-1865, while vastly outnumbered and outspent. They formed a most formidable military, government, their own currency, their own Navy, their own everything in very short order. Not to start any debate on the war, not my point at all, only saying the pluck of the south was and still is greatly underestimated.

[@harrywaters7718]

@@Southernguitar74I’m from Ulster and I can tell you that you are indeed correct

[@harrywaters7718]

I live in Ulster. I like Sowell, but you’re correct. He gets a few things very wrong.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

@@Southernguitar74 what's interesting is that my grandfather who has his roots more in the english and french southerners than the scots-irish like my grandmother, is that his side was very poor. His father was in his early life a poor mule tamer, like his father before, and his father before was a sharecropper and lumber chopper that saved up money for years to try and escape poverty just to have it burnt away with his home. This is unlike my grandmother's side who were always adventuring out into the west, first to Texas then to New Mexico, then to Nevada and California, always owning their own property and making a decent living though having lots of mouths to feed that kept them from using that money lavishly.

[@cjmesq]

Extremely interesting and informative. It’s all culture, and not race.

[@dawnemile7499]

This video was extremely informative. I found the differences between the puritans and other scots irish particularly pertinent to my own family history.

[@kwamesmith3214]

Wonder what Groundskeeper Willie think of his distant cousins 😂😂

[@markantony3875]

The Scots-Irish in Southwestern PA were so ornery that they declared war on the Federal Government and wanted to form another country when the Feds decided to tax their whiskey production to help pay for the War of Independence. The Feds had to send 10,000 troops in to make peace. The uprising was called "The Whiskey Rebellion" and it is still celebrated in Southwestern PA to this day. Which also explains why most people in Southwest PA, regardless of ethnic ancestry, have a "F*** the government" viewpoint.

[@eddiemclean7011]

And that attitude is still heard throughout the region to this day. Theres not a day that goes by here in eastern Ohio that I dont hear talk of a breakaway republic to escape our current administration in DC or the formation of same should another election be stolen. These people are not easily oppressed.

[@V.T.1989]

Man I gotta lot of scotch irish and I'm from the South, and this really sums up my family,some of our traits.

[@terencegamble4548]

Some really interesting insights in this video. Incidentally, there is a small area on the outskirts of Haverhill in Suffolk called New England.

[@Heath580]

This group is also the only group in America to not be turned into woke progressive insane people. They're rough around the edges but are ultimately the best Americans we have left

[@darienkinne1347]

Their cultural legacy is a lot of what is wrong with this country. Thomas outlines how the culture of the Scots-Irish, with their laziness, violence, and low standards of living, is what was adopted by the blacks of the south and became what is most commonly understood as "American black culture" currently. Many of the racial tensions came about from these ill cultured southerners moving out into the rest of the country and being culturally incongruent with the North.

[@Heath580]

@Darien Kinne yeah it's unfortunate that so many blacks have kept some of the antisocial traits of these people, but have you seen the north lately? Specifically New England and the Pacific Northwest (the descendents of New Englanders)? They abandoned Christianity and the constitution. They created a new pseudo religion that worships race, gay people, and the mutilation children. Yankee culture/values created elites that hate America and have ruled America for decades. I'm from one of those communities in southern Indiana. There are problems with these communities, but most people are basically normal Christian people who love their country.

[@hyzercreek]

@@darienkinne1347 Wrong! The Scotch-Irish lived and still live in Appalachia, where are not now, or ever have been, any black people. You know nothing.

[@1who4me]

@@hyzercreek did you watch the video? Did you read Sowell book on this subject? This video is a condemnation of the Scotch-Irish and how it effected both white and black southern culture. When a black person pronounces “ask” as “axe”, it’s a direct connection to the scotch-Irish way of saying the same word. Who do you think taught the black to speak English? White Scotch-Irish southerners!

[@errrzarrr]

On the contrary, they are part of the problem

[@CaseyWG79]

I love Thomas Sowell! I learn something new every time! He should be standard reading in high school!

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

Yes, after watching this vid, I agree it would fit right in with CRT studies.

[@BasicUniversalEconomics]

As a half Scot-Irish NC southerner and half German Quaker, it is interesting to see the traits i seem to have inherited, either partly from my families culture and partly genetic.

[@NicoleWilliams-pk9jr]

Its a mistake to correlate lack of material wealth with backwardness. I am approx. half Scots-Irish and half Anglo heritage. The assertion that lynch law is linked to a specific person is also a mistake. That's not confirmed. Lynch law is connected to a tradition known in the British Isles called 'rough music' (also called charvari, skimmington, or 'riding the stang' in Scotland). Such traditions were not wholly Scottish or from Ulster. It was found throughout rural England and dates at least back to the medieval period. Plus Lynch law is connected to the urban south as much as the old backcountry. The Scots-Irish were key to the success of the Southern campaign of the American War of Independence.

[@mmhthree]

Yup, the pics they show is how everybody suffered here in the South after the Civil War. They burned down most everything, and the South didn't recover for 50-70 years, Some places didn't get real well built until after World War II. Also, I'm not sure if black folks realize whites who stole horses, murdered, etc would be lynched, or hung as well as anybody. It seems they almost think only whites lynched them, and no other criminals from other races.

[@NicoleWilliams-pk9jr]

@@KS6DAY whoever is reading it, is reading out of Albion's Seed. It's a great book but they are taking all of it out of context.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

This vid is loaded with CRT/NORTHERN PROPAGANDA. Actually they are one in the same.

[@michaelalbertson7457]

@@KevinSmith-yh6tl It really is written to show black people that they can't always blame whites for everything, and that whites also have lowlifes, in every state, really. Not so much in this video, though. It's to get whites to realize they ain't superior to blacks. God made all races, it is what the races, all of them, do, to invite criticism and worse. Way of escape from sin is through Jesus Christ. Anyone can be saved, if they want to be. God is no respecter of persons...but, He hates evil. Know the difference when you meet people. It's to get people to think.

[@beneficent2557]

Battle of King's Mountain

[@peterortell6887]

This is the most amazing thing I have ever watched on YT.

[@juliamarple3785]

SO INTERESTING in many ways. Wow.

[@ScooterFXRS]

My father's family are Scots-Irish, my mother's Austro-Hungarian which came over to "make their fortune" only to have to flee back to the US to escape Hitler and his brown shirts. What a stark contrast in family I can tell you.

[@johngilmore6688]

George Washington said during the depths of a freezing winter, at Valley Forge, that he would "rather be surrounded by the Scots Irish fighters than any other men." They were of a Scots Presbyterian background, that emigrated to Ulster, then on to America, due to religious persecution. Many full congregations, emigrated, led by their Presbyterian ministers. Scots Irish Presbyterians, or Ulster Scots as they preferred, provided more American Presidents than any other group. Catholic Irishmen have provided two, Kennedy & Biden.

[@Richard-gp5tg]

Reagan, though not a Catholic was of Irish Catholic stock. As for Biden, he is a disgrace to the Irish.

[@johncheevers2050]

I was borne and raised in northern Ireland, now living in the USA . My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Wilson and my paternals maiden name was McKinley , 5 presidents were borne in country antrim the other 5 in the other 5 counties Sam Houston was ulster scot and that city was named after him !!!

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

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[@isaiahd5396]

​@@TerryBell1968Warrior culture, it is what it is plus people blame all white people these days they don't care Irish, Scot, or English

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

@Terry Yeah, you've posted this to others, I've noticed. This is an open forum, for now. To each their own opinion, no matter which one is blatantly wrong, parroting the Installed administrations talking points. Seems very strange that people who recently sub to YT, are such SJW shite disturbers. AMIRIGHT TERRY? What's your take!

[@christinathompson112]

I married into the Thompsons , and the new world has been good too them , at costs at times

[@alexmckinven3827]

Scots Lowland Presbyterians were also ‘planted’ into Kintyre as well as Ulster. This was done to marginalise the power of the Lords of the Isles - Clan Donald. It happened after the Reformation, between 1609 and 1647. By this time Catholicism was also being marginalised as the mainly Protestant settlers changed the ways of the west. Scots settlement - the Argyll settlement - took place in 1739, this when people from Campbeltown, Argyll, and the nearby inner Hebrides moved to North Carolina. It’s a long story, but they settled at Cross Creek, soon to become upper and lower Campbeltown - now Fayetteville NC.

[@Parker_Douglas]

My parents are a mix of Irish catholic & Scottish Protestant. As they split up when I was a kid my mum brought me up a good Protestant who supports Glasgow Rangers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧❣️

[@flyyinryan]

Another great video!

[@PhilemonUmkaka]

Excellent history!

[@annecosgrove2133]

The Salem witch trials cannot be blamed entirely on Puritan religious fervor. There is a disease causing mental instability and paranoia from a fungus that grows on rye seeds that explains the behavior at Salem. Thank you for this fascinating video. My mother’s family was from rural VA, having more money and status than the rural poor described, but the same personality traits. Growing up in the Philadelphia area had a profound influence on me and my brother’s attitudes.

[@DavidBroadley-tw7ks]

I hated them Puritans the worse kind off protestantism Cromwell and co and

[@TheSpecialJ11]

There's a theory that witches (glorified herbalists), ironically, would collect this fungus on moonlit nights for use in herbal concoctions. As these women, whose operations were clandestine out of necessity in Puritan society, were caught and convicted, ergot contamination spread in epidemic proportions between weather being favorable for its spread on top of no herbalists around to control it.

[@seasea12]

Ergot's the name.

[@michaelalbertson7457]

No wonder I never liked rye bread, the carraway seeds were the worst. Headache city. 👎 One bite, spit it out, and nevermore.

[@janwilson9485]

It wasnt a disease - ergot is a mould growing on grains that was basically the natural form of the drug LSD a hallucinogenic drug.

[@cupidstunt8136]

It seems to be the aspect of pride only exists in cultures with deficiencies. "very little to be proud of" is something one comes across very often in places that test our patience

[@raymondkidwell7135]

No it relates to clannish societies and cultures that live in areas with less law and order. This lack of law and order correlates somewhat to poverty so there's a correlation but not causation.

[@christaverduren690]

At 5:35 the dude on the far right looks exactly like Jason Momoa!!!!! HOLY HERA!!! Anyone else see that???

[@jbhann]

It is the face of Jason Momoa. All four faces have been changed for some reason. Actually, the entire photoshopped photo looks to be a combination of other photos. The light hitting Jason’s legs don’t match the lighting of the others, as strong light is coming from his left side. The guy second from left has a strong light striking only his face from his right side. It appears as if all the characters were photoshopped into the image, as there’s a distinct darker line around parts of their bodies, which wouldn’t be there if they were actually photographed in this environment.

[@erdossuitcase7667]

I’ve heard this particular spin from Sowell before. He left out the pioneering spirit of the Scotch-Irish and only described the “white trash” behavior. For the other side of this story, read “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

Erdos: Yes, absolutely true. Comments I have made about the very topic you mentioned have been removed. If I want a CRT inspired history lesson, I'll sit in on my grandkids History class.

[@michaelalbertson7457]

Born fighting shows the "other side" of the Scots Irish also. Rough people, who have bad tempers, low morals, usually fight a lot. Put that in your writings also. Be totally honest, not woke honest.

[@jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521]

Ulster isn’t a county,it’s a province 🇮🇪☘️, there are nine counties in Ulster ,3 of which are in the Republic of Ireland,and six in Northern Ireland

[@adamw1555]

Yeah...so you wanna go, do ya?

[@nickjohnson6368]

The red right hand of the ulster volunteer force will not let you down

[@raffles7556]

@@nickjohnson6368 …. The red hand was an Irish Gaelic symbol long before those morons stupidly decided to use it.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

❤

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

Ulster isn’t a county, it’s a province 🇬🇧.