[Little Bill]

As a low class Northern White trash of Scots, Irish, English descent, my mothers Family came from Pennsylvania and settled in Mississippi after the Revolution, those that weren't Tories and fled to Canada.

My Daughter in Law is white trash from Alabama according to certain people, ridge runners. the United States would be a lot smaller with out us.

[Albion Wilde]

My Daughter in Law is white trash from Alabama according to certain people, ridge runners. the United States would be a lot smaller with out us.

So true.

Although it is written by a Democrat, I must recommend the book Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by Jim Webb, former Naval officer and presently a Senator from Virginia. (also in paperback.) It explains in easy-to-read detail the history of the Scots-Irish migration first from Scotland to Ireland, and then to the United States, and then throughout the United States, forming the backbone of our traditional culture from coast to coast. Since we are now about to be marginalized even more than usual, and since illegal immigration and other efforts to swell the Democrat party are making us a smaller minority, it's really time to let your children know all that we went through and contributed, not as overlords, but as workhorses in this nation.

And the other great book of Scottish-American history is How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It, by Arthur Herman, a historian from Johns Hopkins University. It is just wonderful.

[SuziQ]

I didn’t realize your ‘people’ were from MS!