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The terms hillbilly and redneck get tossed around in modern society as derogatory terms for people who live in rural communities. While most people are familiar with the words, many aren’t aware of their interesting origins, and how it relates to the history of the Scots Irish Presbyterians that settled in America.
Learn More About the Scots-Irish in America with these Books from Amazon:
"Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America" by David Hackett Fischer - amzn.to/47g6bH6
"Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America" by Jim Webb - amzn.to/3Kqe9DR
"Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South" by Grady McWhiney - amzn.to/47jSLts
Sources:
Hillbilly Jim photo - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Jim
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=his_polsci_facwork
archive.org/details/jstor-20085789
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scotch-Irish_Americans
thescotsirish.blogspot.com/2015/11/scots-irish-surnames.html
google.com/books/edition/Directory_of_Scots_Banished_to_the_Ameri/QZDSAQ9CRGQC?hl=en
Fischer, David Hackett. (1989) Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Image Links:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scotch_Irish_or_American_ancestry_by_county.png
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox#/media/File:KnoxDetailRefWall.JPG
mcmillen-design.com/pages/prints/scotsirish.html
The terms hillbilly and redneck get tossed around in modern society as derogatory terms for people who live in rural communities. While most people are familiar with the words, many aren’t aware of their interesting origins, and how it relates to the history of the Scots Irish Presbyterians that settled in America.
Learn More About the Scots-Irish in America with these Books from Amazon:
"Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America" by David Hackett Fischer - amzn.to/47g6bH6
"Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America" by Jim Webb - amzn.to/3Kqe9DR
"Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South" by Grady McWhiney - amzn.to/47jSLts
Sources:
Hillbilly Jim photo - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Jim
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=his_polsci_facwork
archive.org/details/jstor-20085789
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scotch-Irish_Americans
thescotsirish.blogspot.com/2015/11/scots-irish-surnames.html
google.com/books/edition/Directory_of_Scots_Banished_to_the_Ameri/QZDSAQ9CRGQC?hl=en
Fischer, David Hackett. (1989) Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Image Links:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scotch_Irish_or_American_ancestry_by_county.png
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox#/media/File:KnoxDetailRefWall.JPG
mcmillen-design.com/pages/prints/scotsirish.html
