The Scots Who Left

[MacSpadger]

I must have missed the 'part three' you are referring to. For anyone to say that not many Scots immigrants settled in the south is a gross error. HUGE numbers of Scots and Scots-Irish settled in the south. There are more people in North Carolina with Scots surnames than in all of Scotland. The Scots were a major part of southern and hill country history and were responsible for settling the areas of Tenn, W. Va, Ark, Miss and on into the west. I'm sorry I missed that one or I would have set the record straight right away. Just a quick scan of the officers of the Confederacy would correct that misconception right away.

I think that this is the part referred to;

It was certainly true that some historic connections could be traced in pockets of North Carolina back to 18th-century Highland emigration. But, even if this old experience was historically renowned, it was very much an exception rather than the rule. The Scottish societies of recent times in the South may indeed be replete with Scottish names but their ancestral connection is mainly with Ireland rather than Scotland. The South attracted large numbers of Ulster Scots, whose Lowland Scots ancestors had settled in the north of Ireland in the 17th century. It is mainly their descendants, friends and families who now flock in large numbers to Highland Games and clan societies in the southern states. Significantly, when the first Grandfather Mountain Highland Games were held on 19 August, 1956 (the anniversary of the raising of the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in 1745), the location was MacRae Meadows in the heart of Ulster-Scots territory. The Cape Fear area, where Highland immigrants had actually settled, was thought too flat and not sufficiently authentic to represent the romantic mountain country of bonnie Scotland.

There's a fair bit of follow on writing on the Southern States, but the paragraph above sums up the gist of Mr Devine's hypothesis.