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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

You make my point.
To whom would the North Sea oil belong if Scotland was not subservient to England?
Scots have always died for English interests.
At least the Irish stood and fought.

By the way whose secret service colluded with the deep state to put down our President?


32 posted on 04/28/2019 5:18:51 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: aumrl

Your ignorance of Scottish and UK history is embarrassing. The Scots were leading figures in governance of the British Empire, forming a disproportionate number of administrators, governors and military leaders. This is a well known fact of any atudent of British imperial history. Scotland were probably the primary beneficiaries of both the Union and the economic opportunities of the Empire. In fact, the founding father Thomas Jefferson was forced to delete a rant against the “Scotch” in the declaration of independence because of his hatred of both the Glaswegian tobacco barons and the Highland soldiers sent by the British to quell the rebellion, whom he viewed as alien and foreign with no right to be sent against the colonists who regarded themselves at that time as Englishmen with all the rights that implied in the political discourse of the time.


40 posted on 04/28/2019 2:02:29 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: aumrl

Also, although the so called Scotch Irish (Ulstermen) were very pro independence, Scottish settlers were a lot more pro British than the colonists of English descent. The majority of rank and file patriots and leaders were people of English descent, and especially from the old puritan heartlands of East Anglia and the South West.


41 posted on 04/28/2019 2:07:02 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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