01-13-2017, 09:21 PM
(01-13-2017, 09:09 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-13-2017, 03:07 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Scots Irish (and non Scots Irish normed to that culture) are proud and stoic. There is a long history there and in many ways their distrust of "the system" is justified given how it failed them in both the UK and here.
I find it sad how seemingly reactionary that culture seems to have become, a case can be made that the Scots-Irish people of Appalachia created popular democracy in it's modern Western form.
They're also closely attached to the resource extraction industry (particularly coal), just suffering the initial effects of deindustrialization (kinda like the northern black population in maybe the 1970s), and have long been suspicious of outside intervention unless it benefits them directly, and even then it's still suspicious.
It's also long been one of those things about American politics that the Greater Appalachia/poor white part of the Deep South, despite their similar cultures and economic profiles, have long been aligned on the opposite side of the political spectrum from wherever black people are. They might interact frequently day to day (at least in the greater South), but one group generally gets championed by one segment of the national elite and the other party picks up the other.