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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Mills" <romilly@...> wrote:
>
> In the South, the first settlers grabbed the land and became,
> by and large, a wealthy elite. The later Scots/Irish became
> the Southern proletariat, and it was mostly this group who later
> emigrated by various routes west as far as Texas, to grab land
> for themselves...(beyond Texas it's a total mish-mash).
Actually that should be spelled "Scotch-Irish". See "The
Scotch-Irish - A Social History" by James G. Leyburn. The
term doesn't refer to a mixture of Scots and Irish, but
rather to an ethnically Scottish group which before coming
to N. America had been transplanted from Scotland to Ulster
in Ireland. The term wcame into wider use after the true
Irish began to arrive in greater numbers, and the already
well established and assimilated Presbyterian Scotch-Irish
wanted to make clear the distinction.
David