[sasportas]

Southerners are almost to a man Scots-Irish. You can't help but notice the similarity to the freedom loving Scots in movies such as Mel Gibson's Braveheart. From a website on Scotland:

"The Scottish people have always been independent, individualistic, and have long memories. Also their land is sufficiently dramatic in itself. There is scarcely a yard of the country without its story to tell, of heroism and treachery, of warfare or worship, of flourish or folly or heartbreak - for the Scots never did anything by half."

Independent, idividualistic, and with long memories. No wonder Yankees had more than they bargained for in the civil with these descendants of the fighting Scot-Irish. Long memories? In parts of the south you'd think the civil war has never ended.

And music. Listen to "The Thistile and Shamrock," Scot-Irish music, and American Bluegrass, very little difference. Why one of Bill Monroe's famous recordings is "Scotland." The Monroe name is case in point, it is the name of one of the highland clans of Scotland.

To understand the south, its people, its music, read up on Scotland and Ireland.

[HangnJudge]

Yup
My family is Irish - Dublin circa 1754
Wife is seriously Scotch

[happy_happy_joy_joy]

That's true. Scot-Irish music is so beautiful and soothing to me. Maybe, it is that old Irish blood in me passed down from my father's side of the family.

[investigateworld]

"To understand the South..."
There's an excellent book; "BORN FIGHTING, How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, by James Webb", (if you don't already have it). I think a lot of Freepers will see themselves it, regardless where their ancestors came from.