we can only hope, with a raspberry when he get squished.Er...well, it's an alternative interpretation of the facts. More serious than the Bowling Green massacre.
Watch a Presidential inaugeration and you find yourself expecting a giant animated foot to come down and squish the President.
I thought his post was a racist attempt to peg Republicans as those disgusting Scotts-Irish. Me thinks the Wee Laddie might be a bit daft.
Tinkers all...........You know we can't trust those damn Micks, they're all racists.
When the Scots Irish moved to Texas and the west, they did their best to bring slavery and their racism with them. Certainly there was plenty of racism to go around but the Scots Irish did play a significant role in expanding white/anglo supremacy.I haven't even followed the Wikipedia link, but - and I could be wrong - I thought the Ulster Scots in the US were those guys in the Appalachians? (are they called 'hill billies' or is that derogatory?). I didn't think they had the power to make the whole US racist...they seem to be among the least powerful white people in the whole country.
It's absurd to blame US racism on one small ethnic group. It took a nation of millions to make racism what it was/is. I doubt 'anti-government' or 'pro-gun' sentiment is down to them either. Seems to me those things owe much more to the violent disspossesion of the original inhabitants, the long-lasting racial consequences of slavery, plus the sheer size of the country.
What I have heard, though, is that Ulster Scots played a significant and specific role in the British Empire - mainly they provided a disproportionate share of the colonial police and intelligence-gathering forces that helped keep down the natives in India and Africa.
If you want to make an example of historical distrust of government look up the Irish inslaved to work on Royal Estates in the Colonies.
When the Scots Irish moved to Texas and the west, they did their best to bring slavery and their racism with them. Certainly there was plenty of racism to go around but the Scots Irish did play a significant role in expanding white/anglo supremacy.
Er...well, it's an alternative interpretation of the facts. More serious than the Bowling Green massacre.
Watch a Presidential inaugeration and you find yourself expecting a giant animated foot to come down and squish the President.
They were famously native American killers first.Was listening to Dixie (unofficial Confederate anthem) today. IMMEDIATELY noticed the similarity to a lot of Irish/Scottish music. Then I thought about how much influence the culture might have had and still has today in the US.
Looked at the Wikipedia page for Scotch-Irish Americans, which talked about how some of the cattle herding culture back in Ireland/Scotland bred a distrust for 'big gubberment' and created a strong 'right to arms' culture.
Heeeeeyyyy... wait a minute... ain't this pretty similar to the ideology of today's Republicans?
Again, like I stated in post #18, the Scots-Irish were Scottish, not Irish. They were originally known as Ulster Scots before they came to the U.S. (American Colonies).Is this why Paul Ryan proposed legislation to let more Irish (his roots) immigrants into the US legally? Hmmmmm......
Now we know why Ryan acted the way he did????