Thanks for the ping Pokey.
I recall that a majority the Southern US's population are Scottish descents (Scots or Irish-Scot) and they have inherited the fiercest fighting spirit of their ancestors and are some of the most solidly conservative (in British terminology, classical liberal). It is ironic for them to observe that the descendents of their ancestors' relatives or friends who stayed in Scotland descends to French-clones.
Having said this, English descent may be worse. New Zealand is majority British descent (that is, English. We don't have too many Scots descents apart from the Otago region) and hey, New Zealanders love the welfare state to death.
<< New Zealand is majority British descent (that is, English. "We" [Recent immigrants] don't have too many Scots descents apart from the Otago region) and hey, New Zealanders love the welfare state to death. >>
Bullshit.
New Zealand was created and built on their own and some [A few] every-bit-as-noble Maoris [And one Wairarapa Moriori's] piled-up balls, by Celts.
The bulk of the bloody English - including, apparently some of their cheap and poor Hong-Kong-cloned Xerox copies and facsimiles - came late. [Mostly post-Britain's-WW-II Singapore-like series of surrenders -- and a couple post-its-June 1997 Hong Kong re-run!]
And, in the inimitable English way of doing things - immediately he disembarked from his Celtic-New-Zealander-taxpayer-subsidised Ten Pound Ship every single one of the disgruntled, ne'er-do-well, idle bastards became a bloody union shop steward - and has since -- and especially since all the Celts moved to Australia and to the United States to escape all and every whining Limey -- totally f****ed it all up.