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To: Copeland who wrote (38166)	9/21/2010 5:52:47 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 103300

Thanks for the interesting bit of American history, I imagine many people have no idea about these things... GZ

To: Copeland who wrote (38166)	9/23/2010 6:34:48 PM
From: SGJ	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

This "culture" in this book is hypothetical. The author cherry picks facts to create a mythical distinction between the North and South. Bogus. ...inventing a mythical "celtic" identity for southerners, and comparing it to an alleged "Anglo-Saxon" character in the northern states. This is based solely on Scots-Irish emigration to the American colonies during the 18th century. This ignores the fact that the Scots Irish settled on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line (the traditional heartland of the Scots-Irish was actually in Pennsylvania) and were overwhelmingly located in the back country (most areas outside the backcountry were settled by a range of emigrants from England and a smaller number from Scotland). Available sources do not suggest any significant differences in the distribution of "celtic" speaking peoples between north and south. The Scots-Irish for one, weren't Celtic and settled in the North and the South..."