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	Hyphenated American -
		The term hyphenated American is an epithet from the late 19th century to refer to Americans who consider themselves of a distinct cultural origin other than the United States, and who claim to hold allegiance to both.
		The result is that even if these Americans are, in Roosevelt's words, "American and nothing else," they still may end up having a different experience, and for that reason may develop shared understandings with others of their type, whether they want that or not.
		While some "hyphenated" Americans do hold to the type of mixed loyalties that draw legitimate criticism, others do not, and some claim that the critics miss important points.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Hyphenated_American (962 words)

	The Lowland Seed: 10/31/2004 - 11/06/2004
		But please remember that no-one has been elected spokesman for the Scots-Irish Americans, that we don't agree on a goddamn thing, that some of us are card-carrying members of the ACLU, and that I'll gladly fight anyone who says otherwise.
		Therefore all Scots-Irish Americans hate liberals/Democrats/Northerners/The Irish/Jews/the Poor/You.
		Suffice to say that we come from Ireland but are more Scottish than Irish, and there are an estimated 30 million Americans who share the blood to some extent.
	lowlandseed.blogspot.com /2004_10_31_lowlandseed_archive.html (1699 words)

	Blatherings
		Just as Americans have made an effort to educate, understand and alter the treatment of marginalized groups and alternate cultures within our society, we have held on to poor whites as a group to demean." ~~Angel Price of Virginia University
		For their refusal to accept the Church of England, which they described as "Popery without the Pope", these Scots were persecuted by the British.
		Many Americans try to slander not only this ethnic group, but the entire white South by using the appellation "Redneck".
	neddybee.blogspot.com /2005/05/who-are-rednecks.html (896 words)

	VDARE.com: 06/15/03 - America’s Scotch-Irish And The Rove Rationale
		Perhaps because of this culture of courage, the backcountry Scots-Irish are the ethnic group that Americans most look toward for Presidential leadership, especially in times of foreign threat.
		Historian Walter Russell Mead recently proposed his own fourway division of Americans in terms of their foreign policy orientations.
		The articles on VDARE.com are brought to you by the Lexington Research Institute and The Center for American Unity.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/fischer.htm (1321 words)

	Bookreporter.com - BORN FIGHTING by James Webb
		Feel the pride and wonder as he examines who the Scots-Irish were, how they came to be that way, and who they are now.
		He explores the conditions and circumstances that forged the strength of character, will, and mind of the modern-day Scots-Irish American.
		The fighting spirit that Americans are known for originated in these people.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0767916883.asp (329 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America - James H. Webb - Hardcover
		More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland.
		In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day.
		Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=184ygPQCnN&isbn=0767916883&itm=1 (1927 words)

	Scots-Irish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 2000 US Census, 4.3 million Americans (more than 2% of the white population in the USA) claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though estimates suggest that the true number of Scots-Irish in the USA is more in the region of 27 million.
		The Scots-Irish are descendants of the Ulster Scots immigrants who travelled to North America from Ulster in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
		In Canada, by contrast, Irish Protestants remained a cohesive political force well into the 20th century, identified with the Conservative Party of Canada (historical) and especially with the Orange Institution, although this is less evident in today's politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots-Irish_American (2323 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		Irish Americans have gone into a worried state of pause, unhappy about the way the Middle East is developing but unwilling to be too open about their fears while American soldiers are at war.
		The Irish in America are viewed with, at best, a fitful interest from Dublin which only stirs into life over an occasional policy of the hour, for or against Sinn Fein for example, and they’re taken pretty much for granted by the American political system.
		The strength of the Irish in America was demonstrated in recent years in two arenas — the securing of green cards for undocumented Irish illegals, and the creation of the Irish peace process.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/EmpowerIrishScots.asp (889 words)

	The Fighting Scots-Irish
		The Americans in favour of dealing with the fascists were the Scots-Irish, who had a long tradition of military service, especially during the Civil War (on both sides).
		There is a connection between the Scots-Irish and an important American conception of liberty but it's not as though one can argue that they were wholly devoted to all that we mean by freedom and that others weren't.
		President William McKinley, said: "The Scots-Irish were the first to proclaim for freedom in these United States; even before Lexington Scots-Irish blood had been shed for American freedom.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1448532/posts (5849 words)

	Tracing the Scots-Irish
		Although researchers should seek to understand their particular ancestors and their customs, convictions and motivations, all Americans can claim the Scots-Irish as their forbears, whether they find Scots-Irish blood in their lines or not.
		In addition to the Ulster American Folk Park outdoor museum in Ireland, the Scots-Irish are represented at the Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA 24402; 540.332.7850
		It wasn't until the Irish immigrants of the 1845-49 potato famine arrived that this group began distinguishing themselves as Scots-Irish.
	www.barlowgenealogy.com /Resources/scots-irish.html (1705 words)

	Powell's Books - Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
		More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland.
		In the tradition of How the Irish Saved Civilization and How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Born Fighting is a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America.
		It chronicles how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0767916883 (821 words)

	reversecowgirl: Scots-Irish American
		Scots-Irish Americans are descendants of the Ulster-Scots immigrants who came to North America from Ireland in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
		Unlike later immigrant groups, the Scots Irish discarded their past identity and are most likely to put their ethnicity as "American" on census forms.
		James Webb's book, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America", suggests that the character traits of the Scots Irish, loyalty to clan, mistrust of governmental authority, and military readiness, helped shape the "American Identity".
	reversecowgirl.blogspot.com /2005/09/scots-irish-american.html (274 words)

	American History
		From the 1730s, when they claimed the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia as their new homeland, Born Fighting chronicles how Scots-Irish Americans changed the nation's course and character.
		Webb also gives the Scots-Irish their due for completely American art forms and pastimes, most notably country music, as well as the stereotype and the reality of hard-drinking, hard-working, straight-talking blue-collar America.
		Born into an Irish Catholic family, Warren signed on as a seaman at age 13 and rapidly advanced in rank in the Royal Navy, a new profession in the early 1700s.
	www.wordtrade.com /history/america (1230 words)

	Policy Review, November-December, 1998 -- "Created Equal" by Lamar Alexander
		No southerner who has experienced the indignity of black Americans being pushed to the back of the bus, sent to separate hospitals, relegated to separate bathrooms, and kept out of many of the best schools and colleges because of their race can remain indifferent to the legacy of discrimination.
		Being an American is not a matter of looking the same, or having grandparents from the same part of the world; it is a matter of believing in common principles.
		To be an American means to be proud that this is a nation of immigrants.
	www.policyreview.org /nov98/equal.html (2625 words)

	Ulster Scots / Scotch-Irish
		This ethnic category is widely portrayed in loyalist webspace as a slumbering giant that should be mobilised in support of loyalism in the same way that Irish republicans mobilised the support of Irish-Americans.
		Unionists and loyalists have also paid increasing attention to the 'Scotch-Irish' (also 'Scots-Irish'), the American descendants of Ulster Presbyterian emigrants of the 18th century.
		The Ulster-Scots presence online ranges from the exclusively genealogical through the cultural to the directly political websites that represent the Ulster Scots as the ethnic base for loyalist and unionist politics.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /loy/ulsscots.html (306 words)

	LSNet
		With war on, Americans have troops in mind
		Two versions of Dapper RC1 are available on CD from LSNet This is the "Release Candidate" but I am expecting few, if any changes in the...
		We accept bank draft, check draft, and checks by phone as well as Discover, Visa, MasterCard and American Express through Paypal.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/pa/dinsm1.htm (460 words)

	Irish
		Scots Irish is the term for ethnicity which is a mix of Scots and Irish ethnicity Irish, or for a person or people of such ancestry.
		Irish Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who have Ireland ancestry.
		Irish Crochet is a type of lace, which has its origin in the famine years of the 19th century in Ireland...
	www.tutorgig.com /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=Irish (460 words)

	Linguistics 201: The Dialects of American English
		The true Scottish and Irish people were Celts who spoke Scots-Gaelic or its close relative Irish-Gaelic and most did not adopt English until the 18th or 19th century.
		The upper class southern dialects and the dialects of the coastal southern areas (where few native Americans remained) were influenced by the English spoken by West Africans.
		The Ashkenazi Jews in Central Europe spoke a dialect of German called Yiddish. The Sephardic Jews of Spain spoke Ladino, a medieval dialect of Spanish. Yiddish especially has influenced New York speech and also contributed words than Americans of all dialects may use and know:
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ling201/test3materials/AmericanDialects.htm (460 words)

	North Carolina Genealogy and History Bookstore: Scottish and Scots-Irish Ancestry
		Scots Irish in Pennsylvania and Kentucky by Bill Kennedy; Paperback; Buy New: $15.99
		The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World,1689-1764.by Patrick Griffin;
		The Scots' ancient sense of kinship is colorfully expressed through their distinctive tartans-beautifully conveyed with full-color illustrations throughout the book, and complemented by detailed information on the color, pattern, and set of each clan.
	www.raleighresearch.com /scottish.html (460 words)

	Ulster Scots / Scotch-Irish
		This ethnic category is widely portrayed in loyalist webspace as a slumbering giant that should be mobilised in support of loyalism in the same way that Irish republicans mobilised the support of Irish-Americans.
		In recent years many loyalists and unionists have taken a renewed interest in, and placed increasing emphasis on, Ulster Scots identity.
		The Ulster-Scots presence online ranges from the exclusively genealogical through the cultural to the directly political websites that represent the Ulster Scots as the ethnic base for loyalist and unionist politics.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /loy/ulsscots.html (306 words)

	Our Scotch/Irish Heritage
		This caused a renewal in the resident population of Scotch-Irish Americans to identify themselves in such a manner that they would not be thrown in the same "class" of citizenry as the new, Catholic, Irish immigrants.
		The Irish, as many new classes of immigrants are in a new country, were not looked on favorably by the general population.
		Aside from the missionary goal of converting the Irish was the real consideration of not having a neighbor that might hold a religion in common with its enemies.
	members.aol.com /ntgen/hrtg/scirish.html (2394 words)

	Sean Vanderfluit's Genealogy Page
		While many of grandpa's more recent ancestors were Americans, the family stock includes assorted English, Scots, and Irish, Germans, Swiss, and maybe even a few Italians.
		An excellent resourse for Dutch genealogy is the English site for the Centraal Bureau Voor Genealogie (a name you don't even need to know Dutch to understand).
		If your Dutch is better than mine (not a difficult achievement!), you can try out the more comprehensive CBVG Dutch language site.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Rhodes/4267/family.html (877 words)

	BeerAndLoathing
		Irish, also known as Gaelic or Erse, is an inflecting Indo-European language belonging to the q-Celtic family of languages that includes Scots Gaelic and Manx.
		The descendants of those Irish who left the country during the many wars and famines and settled in the US, the Irish Americans tend to have rather quaint and charming notions about their native (sic) land that offer no end of amusement to the inhabitants of Ireland.
		To an Irish American, Ireland is some mist-shrouded isle of song and story, where hearty old men gather in whitewashed cabins to play cards, drink whisky, and recite a saga or two, popping out occasionally to post a letter to America and bust a cap in a redcoat on the way back.
	www.beerandloathing.com /glos_i.htm (877 words)

	Scottish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish Americans are closely related to Scots-Irish Americans, also called Ulster-Scots, who in the US are treated as part of a common ethnic group.
		Scottish Americans or Scots Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the northwest European country of Scotland.
		Map showing the population density of Americans who declared Scottish ancestory in the census.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_American (470 words)

	Scottish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish Americans are closely related to Scots-Irish Americans, also called Ulster-Scots, who in the US are treated as part of a common ethnic group.
		Scottish Americans or Scots Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the northwest European country of Scotland.
		In addition to traditional Scottish sports such as the Caber toss and the Hammer throw, there are Whisky tastings, traditional foods such as Haggis, and traditional Scottish dance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_American (470 words)

	Celtic Music in Italy
		American Country music has some Celtic Character in that many (but certainly not all) of its folk song and dance music history comes from “Scots/Irish sources.” I have heard Americans lump all British Isles music together as “Celtic” which is profoundly untrue, as a great deal of English Music is Germanic in character.
		Irish session music in the USA is also conservative as is Scots music in Nova Scotia, which means these are often the best places to hear old style authentic music.
		To the detriment of true Australian folk music, which was Anglo-German, reels, jigs and Irish style polka replaced the Waltzes and Versovianas of the Australian settlers.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/folk_music/97991 (782 words)

	Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
		Unfortunately the hardest ethnicity's to research are Native Americans and African Americans, with written records going back 150 years; then Greek and Irish back 200 years; English, 300 years; Scots, Scandinavian, French and Italian are all 400 years; Germanic and Slavic, 500 years and Swiss 600 years.
		Together, they planned to set up a dummy company to be financed by France and Spain, one that could deliver military supplies and equipment to the Americans at war with England.
		You do not hear or read much about G�lvez in American history, but this G�lvez' accomplishments certainly rank him with Lafayette, the French friend of the Americans.
	www.somosprimos.com /heritage.htm (782 words)

	Celtic music in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Country music's roots come from "Americanized interpretations of English, Scottish, Scots and Scots-Irish traditional music, shaped by African American rhythms, and containing vestiges of (19th century) popular song, especially (minstrel songs)"
		Irish and Scottish music have long been a major part of American music, at least as far back as the 19th century.
		Celtic-Americans have also been influential in the creation of Celtic Fusion, a set of genres which combine traditional Celtic music with contemporary influences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celtic_music_in_the_United_States (636 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		In fact, the greatest realignment in modern politics would take place rather quickly if the right national leader found a way to bring the Scots-Irish and African-Americans to the same table, and so to redefine a formula that has consciously set them apart for the past two centuries.
		Webb, a former secretary of the Navy, is the author of "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," just published by Broadway.
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	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110005798 (1443 words)

	Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
		Unfortunately the hardest ethnicity's to research are Native Americans and African Americans, with written records going back 150 years; then Greek and Irish back 200 years; English, 300 years; Scots, Scandinavian, French and Italian are all 400 years; Germanic and Slavic, 500 years and Swiss 600 years.
		Language, religion, and many customs differed between resident Spanish speaking and the newly arrived others, who spoke English, Irish, German, and many other languages.
		As we approached Mexico, splendidly dressed chieftains came out to meet us and they lodged us in spacious stone palaces." "We saw in these cities temples all gleaming white and wonderful to behold.
	www.somosprimos.com /heritage.htm (1443 words)

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