The following quote is from the book [Born Fighting, How the Scots-Irish Shaped America]. All you sons of the South should pick up a copy of it. By reading this book I learned allot about my Southern ancestors and their will to fight and die in battling oppression and tyranny.
THE NAZIFICATION OF THE CONFEDERACY
“The greatist disservice has been the attempt by revisionist politicians and academics to defame the entire Confederate Army in a move that can only be termed the Nazification of the Confederacy. Often cloaked in the argument over the public display of the Confederate battle flag, the syllogism goes something like this: Slavery was evil. The soldiers of the Confederacy fought for a system that wished to preserve it. Therefore they were evil as well, and any attempt to honor their service is a veiled effort to glorify the cause of slavery. This dishonors hundreds of thousands of men who can defend themselves only through the voices of their descendants.”
Not all Southerners were Scots-Irish though. At the time of the war, almost all of my ancestors were of French/Anglo descent, heavy on the French mind you. It is true, almost all of the inland areas were Scots-Irish, but on the coast, Anglo-Saxons, French, Irish and other ethnicities predominated.