What is Reddit's opinion of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America?

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'Born Fighting' By author/senator/certified badass Jim Webb isn't, strictly speaking, about the history of Appalachia, but it covers the development of Appalachia in decent detail.

http://www.amazon.com/Born-Fighting-Scots-Irish-Shaped-America/dp/0767916891

Sounds like we don't live too far apart. What you're seeing is what happened when the Scots-Irish culture intermingled with Norteño culture. We actually have lots of cultures in the US. Some of them don't play nice together for some really old reasons too.

Lots of Irish / Scots-Irish in Appalachia. In colonial days poor immigrant last and recently freed indentured servants could find land and community in the mountains, away from the English influence they had emigrated from. The Battle of Kings Mountain was mostly fought by Scots-Irish immigrants. That lineage runs deep including the music. Here’s an old Documentary on the subject: https://youtu.be/DHOyYQ0Wm_I and here’s a decent book: https://www.amazon.com/Born-Fighting-Scots-Irish-Shaped-America/dp/0767916891

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767916891/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_4AAA1K44J466YWDXJ62B

Here's a great book I read years ago. Talks a lot about why we sound like we do.

All y'all Scots Irish ain't neither. You're probably border English that Cromwell sent over to displace the true Irish.

This might be me though, we'll see what my 23 and Me says

Edit: But if you are, embrace your heritage. Jim Webb wrote a tremendous book on the Scots Irish

Them's my people. Here are a couple of books you might enjoy: <em>Born Fighting</em> by Jim Webb and <em>Steel Bonnets</em> by George MacDonald Fraser.

Redneck history I can get behind.

There is no dispute that the majority of the people in the south were small farmers, and farmed their own small rural plots or sharecropped. There is no dispute that only the wealthiest 1.6% of Americans owned slaves, a very, VERY small number of people who actually had any. (1860 US census). There is no dispute that the southern redneck, largely of Scots-Irish immigrant descent, hated government then and hates it still, and went to war starving and barefoot for their rights and freedom. Born Fighting, James Web You may not like to hear the facts, but you are making a solely personal conjecture and supposing hypothetically that all the poor farmers in the south went to war barefoot and starving, because they wanted escaped slaves hunted down. There is such extensive first person record of the Civil War, carefully archived, that it is not necessary to conjecture or guess as you have done. The facts and statistics are not in dispute as the records are well-kept and available. It is widely accepted by scholars that it was a rich man's war, but a poor man's fight. The revisionism occurs by those who wish to increase white guilt, by having it seem that most southerners owned slaves or went to fight because of slavery, when clearly, neither were the case. 1.6% of total Americans owned slaves. That's the fact. The bullshit is as you are doing: trying to pretend that all the rest of the regular people, the 98% of small and poor farmers, left their families to the unknown dangers of war in their home fields, and walked barefoot for hundreds of miles to suffer, starve, and die in the bloody, shitting, horrors of war just so that a tiny, tiny number of rich people they didn't even care about, could keep slaves.