Scotch-Irish Americans

Anyone here before the Immigration Act of 1924, um, shut the great wave, or in the most serious version, [lip smack] no date at all, just a, a culture, right? The Anglo-Protestant self-governing common law frontier shape way of life that made this place different from the places our great-grandparents left.

Kind of anybody that falls into the, [clears throat] uh, excuse me, the Scotch-Irish, uh, attitude.

Now, these are not different degrees of a single idea.

Four of them are dates on a calendar.

Undoubtedly thousands of their passengers were Irish of the native stock.

So besides the so-called Scotch Irish from the north of Ireland, the distinction always being Protestantism, not race, it is indisputable that thousands Celtic in race and Catholic in religion came to the colonies.

These newcomers made their homes principally in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas and the frontiers of the New England colonies.

Later they pushed on westward and founded Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Yeah, are you 100%? What are you? I am not 100.

I'm basically like Scotch-Irish-English or whatever.

I don't know.

But, yeah, I've got – I wish I had enough that I could become a citizen, but apparently I don't have quite the – That's such a bummer.

But my wife's long lost cousin is coming on the show today.

Scotch-Irish cousin.

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Now, she's known, as I just referenced...

In the Blue Ridge as the Scotch-Irish High Priestess of Appalachia.

She served as the chief White House correspondent for both OAN and Newsmax, covering both Trump and Biden's White House.

He was just thirty-seven years younger than Robert Browning and was always pleased that his birthday fell on the same day as that of the great poet he loved and studied so many years.

He was of mixed ancestry, being of Dutch and English extraction on his father's side and, on his mother's, of German and Scotch-Irish.

The name is Dutch, and tradition says that the family came from the little town of Brooke near Amsterdam.

He was the only child of Thomas Bickford and Jane [Leupman] Hornbrook and was named indirectly for Sir Francis Burdett, the great English radical and a distant kinsman of the Hornbrook family.

Andrew Jackson Introduction Andrew Jackson was born in North Carolina in 1767.

His parents were Scotch-Irish.

Schools were few and poor, and Andy learned more from the woods than from books.

As a boy he was full of fun and mischief and fond of sports, but he was very hot-tempered.