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Reminds me of David Hackett Fischer who argues persuasively in Albion's Seed that the Scots-Irish (which was originally a pejorative) have a unique identity descended from the borderlands people of England and Scotland. He traces how their social customs remain in place among their descendants, whose ideas about violence, sex, thrift, etc. are noticeably different from the other early immigrants (Quakers, Puritans, Virginians).

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