Re: Secret GOP Weapon: The Scotch-Irish vote
Scots-Irish and Irish are different. Scots-Irish are generally protestant.
U can get more info if you look it up on the net. Another name for this cultural group could be “rednecks”. A book was written recently about this group.
This is an excerpt from the article.
The Scots-Irish are derived from a mass migration from Northern Ireland in the 1700s, when the Calvinist “Ulster Scots” decided they’d had enough of fighting Anglican England’s battles against Irish Catholics. One group settled initially in New Hampshire, spilling over into modern-day Vermont and Maine. The overwhelming majority–95%–migrated to the Appalachians in a series of frontier communities that stretched from Pennsylvania to northern Alabama and Georgia. They eventually became the dominant culture of the South and much of the Midwest.