Posted on 07/27/2012 11:28:07 AM PDT by pinochet
Barack Obama made a trip to Ireland when he became President, and he bragged about the Irish heritage that he has on his mother's side. In his first book, he wrote about visiting Kenya, to celebrate his father's Kenyan roots. Then why is Mitt Romney being given a hard time on his visit to England, when one of his advisers mentioned that Romney is proud of his Anglo-Saxon heritage? Romney should tell his non-Anglo critics that they are guests and freeloaders, living in a country (America) that was founded by Anglo-Saxons.
The Irish are cheered when they have their St. Patrick Day parades. The Italians, while they face some opposition from radical American Indians, are still able to celebrate Colombus' Day parades. The Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo and Caesar Chavez day, while Blacks have their Martin Luther King day and Black history month. Germans have their Steuben societies, and Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Poles, Koreans, Chinese, and other groups have their ethnic organizations.
What is wrong with Mitt Romney being proud of his Anglo-Saxon culture - the culture that gave us America? Most Americans who are not ethnic Anglo-Saxons, envy them greatly, and try to make them ashamed of their heritage. I am not Anglo-Saxon myself, but I am thankful for those people for creating the most free nations of the civilized world - Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and, of course - America - the finest creation of the Anglo-Saxon people.
NH liquor store after Exit One, Rt 95 North.
I am a staunch southern non apologist who proudly claims Saxon heritage just as much as the poetic lore....Wessex to be exact
Neo Confederate is a pejorative term invented by PC folks who See everything though something minority
Like the word misogynist or bigot
No southerner i know uses such talk....we just consider ourselves like a last stand in modern America's nosedive.....holding onto a cohesive regional commonality
Like Scots or Bavarians or Flemish
Aye, get ye to a Rabbie Burns supper next January 25 (Google is your friend). You'll probably need reservations -- they fill up. You'll get you some haggis, you will, and you'll have a great evening.
The Haggis sold in the US today has passed all the USDA requirements, so it is not as "pure" as it used to be, but is still worth a taste.
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae let the Lord be thankit.
Historian Grady McWhiney believed that the Celtic influence in the South was strong and he wrote a book about it: Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways In The Old South
The claim that this is some sort of horrible "neo-Confederate" evil comes straight from the Leftists over at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those SPLC Leftists being essentially Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich. Once again, their hate-mongering finds its way to FR.
I used to be surprised when their poison got posted here, now I'm surprised if it doesn't get repeated. There's a crackpot lady doctor from Texas who can be counted on to flood every thread about illegal immigration with propaganda from the SPLC charging that every major immigration group is a front for "eugenics".
But I digress. Here is the SPLC's spew against McWhiney, Clyde Wilson, Celts, "neo-Confederates", and everybody else that Beirich and Potok hate; I'm sure we will see it echoed many more times here among the politically correct:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/winter/the-ideologues?page=0,3
YES.
Anglo Saxon Protestants established this country.
Nuff said.
unappreciative kenyans didn’t build that.
“Scotch” is an archaic form of “Scottish.”
All these people butchering “Scotch-Irish” wear a Scots Plaid tartan, use Scots Tape and drink Scots Whisky, I guess.
“The term “scots-irish” was coined in America, in the mid 1800s, once the “potato famine” Irish began immigrating here.”
My Mississippi grandmother, born in 1876, used the phrase to describe the family but I rather doubt that she had any contact with the potato-famine crowd. Her family were Presbyterian Scots who settled in Ulster and then left for the Colonies when they were double-crossed by the English, whom they had assisted in war.
These Presbyterian Scots-Irish harbored a grudge against the English, so when the Redcoats and their Loyalist lackeys decided to lay waste to the backcountry South it was payback time. King’s Mountain, Cowpens, Williamson’s Plantation; these were fought largely by Patriot Militia of Scots Irish blood.
“Scotch” is whiskey, nothing more, nothing less. All other references to the people of Scotland should be “Scot” or “Scots”—as the name implies—”Scot”-”land.”
The term “Scotch-Irish” dates to the late 16th century and is the term by which the Scotch-Irish identify themselves. “Scotch” is an old way of saying “Scottish” that survived in the various dialects of Appalachia and beyond, wherever the Scotch-Irish settled. Scotch Pine, butterscotch, hopscotch, the state seashell of North Carolina, the Scotch Bonnet, on and on.
Your preferred usage dates to 1972.
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