Quote Originally Posted by Half Scot Half Pole View Post
Here in the states, esp. the South Eastern Appalachian Mountains, violence, bloodshed, etc. is associated with the Scotch-Irish settlers, those Scots resettled in Ireland and then emigrating to the Southern states, of whom which I proudly hale. We are the rule and by no means a stereotype. Our struggles are not considered our cultural due like other ethnic people group, we are disdained by the power elite and dismissed as "rednecks, crackers, inbred, uneducated".

A disdain for we "rednecks" is prevalent in the English descended/controlled more prosperous regions along the east coast. Our politicians use us as examples of "bad Americans". But civilization in the states often comes with a loss of faith, as humanistic ideals displace innate belief in the Almighty. Southern "redneck" religion is often called a superstition, and the whole idea of faith is left behind in academic and material pursuits by those who feel they are superior to we people of heritage. And the drunken and reckless lifestyle of the Scotch-Irish southerners is proof to the uninformed, but well dressed, civilized folk that we rednecks have no value in society, their version of society.

It was a Samaritan whom Christ offered as an example of applied love. Very well could've been a redneck.
Scotch is a whiskey, a Scot is a person, though not of Scottish ancestry myself, I believe it is something that annoys them. The author Charles Dickens always called them Scotchmen though.

The Scots originally came from Ireland, a tribe called the Scotti who subdued the Picts, I'm not well up on the details though.

If I had been born an American, I would like to have been born a Southerner. Perhaps I was in a previous life, for I certainly have always had an interest in the Confederacy and certainly many people with my family name fought on that side. I had considered a Confederate commemorative tartan kilt but as someone born in England, I felt it was inappropriate.

I think the education system in America and the UK is generally very bad,not just limited to the rednecks of the South. (Are there rednecks in the North?)

I will refrain from religious comment, as I think we aren't supposed to discuss those things here, but I am of the older religion.