It's nice to see so much positive discussion around this topic being an Englishman married to an Ulster woman i have lived in Belfast most of my life i can honestly say i could not and would not live anywhere else it's good to see so many of our American cousins of Ulster Scots descent re discovering their true ancestry. after much the so called Irish American lobbyists have done their level best to hijack and eradicate the huge contribution Ulster Scots/Scots Irish more than any other peoples made to the foundations of the United States of America It is a travesty that so many American's donated to organisations such as NORAID which contributed so greatly the death and destruction of our wee country and their own kinsmen...
@Clean your room Redskull many many on the "ulster scots" would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months then leaving for the americas to jine their earlier scots kin. they never sat in ireland for a couple o centuries then went in one discounted bulk load.
You have to go about 150 miles West Into Texas to reach naturally open, abundant pasture land. It wasn't until after the Civil War that the Beef Cattle Business really took off big in the Lone Star State. For that first 150 miles, the Texas diet had been dominated by Pork and Chicken. One of the lazy Farming Techniques that a minority of Scots-Irish descendants did in the Eastern Zone was to have their Chickens Roosting at night on branches of very large trees. If you don't clip the Chickens' Wings (A Lazy Practice), they can fly up to about 20 feet or more into them. Irish Catholics also found their way Into Texas In abundant numbers to participate in the Long Trail Drives up into Missouri and Kansas. Impoverished Irish Catholic Immigrant Orphan Teens were among the most preferred hires, with no next of kin to sue for the unpaid wages of those who didn't survive the drive. The Cowboy Songs for Putting the Herds to sleep were mostly Sung by the Irish Tenor Boys, and "Get along Little DOGHIE" came from Irish for Motherless or Sick CALF. The Biggest Beef Cattle Operations in the South Texas Region began after the Civil War, & some of the biggest were owned by IRISH CATHOLICS. Can You Say KING RANCH?
The speaker fails to mention that slavery made living a lazy life so much easier......Scots Irish forgot how badly he was treated, and repeatedly use that cruelty to African and Native Americans.
Black Swamp Homestead true, but the Ulster Scots culture in the North was drowned out by the waves of immigrants that arrived in the 1800s. The Ulster Scots had a huge impact on early American history, but they were few in number compared to the mass of Slavs, Italians, and Catholic Irish that flooded the North. However, few of the immigrants of the 1800s made it to the South, which allowed Ulster Scots culture to grow and thrive. Much love to my Yankee cousins from a Southern descendant of Ulster Scots!
@@benjamingrist6539 ... Agree.... our family and several other Scot Irish families moved west to NW Ohio from Virginia and Pennsylvania as soon as it opened for settlers... since then, others came and our family grew large.... not quite like the melting pot in the east 💓
It seems the Ulster Scots history has been lost in the USA which is unfortunate. From an Ulster Scot still in Ulster it is great to see our shared heritage for which many try to make us ashamed.
Not sure why they are described as leisure oriented ...... They never have been interested in being rich and snobbish..... Not sure what they mean by " leisure" ... Omg.. I didn't know it was in my DNA to hate suburbs..... Houses need to be spread out... I don't mind being able to see them...but I got to not really be able to hear them... Got to have a big plot of land... With lots of trees.....lollll...
Leisure oriented? Penchant for harsh, unaged whiskey called shine. When Scots-Irish moved into a new area, the first two things they did was build a kirk and a still, and not in that order. See "the Journal of the Reverend Woodmason."
I'm not following what would be particularly Calvinistic about thinking you have a mission. Scotch-Irish, maybe. Indo-European, maybe. But, Calvinism explicitly teaches that the fate of each person's soul was decided at the beginning of time and they cannot change it, nor can they presume to know what it is. So on an individual matter who would dare to evangelize to anyone else, and what would be the point. And what does any of this even have to do with missions or fates of nations? If the Scotch-IRish themselves made some connection between predestination and the fate of nations, you're going to have to explicitly build the history of that for us, because no logical connection is there.
Not in the whole discussion of the Civil War, was there even a single mention of African American slaves, the issue of slavery in the Civil War, the abolitionists, or of black soldiers fighting in it. Instead it is treated like it was some sort of dispute between northern Catholic recent immigrants and their Yankee overlords against the Protestant, mainly Presbyterian southerners. This is a ridiculous deception as to the real issues of the Civil War. The whole of the narration is completely laced with bigoted references, such as that Yellowstone was "discovered" by a white man, even though it admits that Native Americans were present there. Slavery is only mentioned as some kind of excuse for the conquest of the south rather than the actual truth, that it was the principle reason it was fought. Add to this, the disdain for unionism, and you have a veritable banquet of the right wing attitudes that dominate the politics of the south right down to this day. This film is pure propaganda.
Around 24 minutes in, I was struck by the guy on the horse talking about how Southerners thought anyone who worked super hard was doing something wrong. Never mind they had slaves working for them. Still watching, but I see what you mean so far.
Up yours race baiter. People like you are the cry babies of the earth. Not everything that everyone does or puts together must focus on your hate pushing ideas and libtard agenda. Hey, guess what? I'm sure I was in a rest area and of all the literature written on the wall I didn't find one, not one comment in regards to racism. I'm sure you'll have something to say about that. Thank god the writers left plenty of #'s for you to call and complain. Here's one 1-800-Piss-off. Douchebag.
This documentary wasn't about the Civil War or slavery, however, I personally would like to have seen at least a discussion of slavery and the range of attitudes towards it amongst the Scots-Irish. Most Scots-Irish were yeoman farmers or middle class, not wealthy plantation owners. Many Scots-Irish saw no sense in fighting to preserve slavery since they didn't own slaves themselves. This is why the Scots-Irish in western Virginia seceded from Virginia during the Civil War, to become West Virginia and remain in the Union. Also, your view of politics in the South is obviously not from experience. People here are fiercely pro-Union. My family alone have men from every generation who have fought to preserve and protect it in every generation from the War of Independence until today. My brothers and I have all served in the military, and all of us have been deployed overseas, with four stints in Iraq between us.
@@catherinewylie6959 Not in my southern family. We're descended from Scots Irish, and I guarantee you we were raised to work hard from dawn to dusk six days a week. Work hard, pray hard, play hard.
Actually it does cover, albeit briefly, the issue of slavery and the Civil War at about 37:00. Perhaps you didn't watch the whole video before making your blanket statement?
Thanks so much for downloading this! I'm Scotch Irish and love to learn about my background!
We prefer Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland, great show.
The comparison between the Confederates and Scots Covenanters uniforms is startling, 200 years in the difference but quite similar.
It's nice to see so much positive discussion around this topic being an Englishman married to an Ulster woman i have lived in Belfast most of my life i can honestly say i could not and would not live anywhere else it's good to see so many of our American cousins of Ulster Scots descent re discovering their true ancestry. after much the so called Irish American lobbyists have done their level best to hijack and eradicate the huge contribution Ulster Scots/Scots Irish more than any other peoples made to the foundations of the United States of America It is a travesty that so many American's donated to organisations such as NORAID which contributed so greatly the death and destruction of our wee country and their own kinsmen...
@Clean your room Redskull many many on the "ulster scots" would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months then leaving for the americas to jine their earlier scots kin. they never sat in ireland for a couple o centuries then went in one discounted bulk load.
Thank you very much! My were Scots-Irish the Ashmore's.
This is one of the most interesting well put together /commentated documentaries ive seen - and ive seen a lot - thank you
The Confederate battle flag saltire resembles the Scottish flag.
Thank you for this valuable information!
You have to go about 150 miles West Into Texas to reach naturally open, abundant pasture land. It wasn't until after the Civil War that the Beef Cattle Business really took off big in the Lone Star State. For that first 150 miles, the Texas diet had been dominated by Pork and Chicken. One of the lazy Farming Techniques that a minority of Scots-Irish descendants did in the Eastern Zone was to have their Chickens Roosting at night on branches of very large trees. If you don't clip the Chickens' Wings (A Lazy Practice), they can fly up to about 20 feet or more into them. Irish Catholics also found their way Into Texas In abundant numbers to participate in the Long Trail Drives up into Missouri and Kansas. Impoverished Irish Catholic Immigrant Orphan Teens were among the most preferred hires, with no next of kin to sue for the unpaid wages of those who didn't survive the drive. The Cowboy Songs for Putting the Herds to sleep were mostly Sung by the Irish Tenor Boys, and "Get along Little DOGHIE" came from Irish for Motherless or Sick CALF. The Biggest Beef Cattle Operations in the South Texas Region began after the Civil War, & some of the biggest were owned by IRISH CATHOLICS. Can You Say KING RANCH?
Love the way this ended
I am also scotch Irish and my grandma was Cherokee
The speaker fails to mention that slavery made living a lazy life so much easier......Scots Irish forgot how badly he was treated, and repeatedly use that cruelty to African and Native Americans.
💓💓 💓... but there are lots of us up North too
Black Swamp Homestead true, but the Ulster Scots culture in the North was drowned out by the waves of immigrants that arrived in the 1800s. The Ulster Scots had a huge impact on early American history, but they were few in number compared to the mass of Slavs, Italians, and Catholic Irish that flooded the North. However, few of the immigrants of the 1800s made it to the South, which allowed Ulster Scots culture to grow and thrive.
Much love to my Yankee cousins from a Southern descendant of Ulster Scots!
@@benjamingrist6539 ... Agree.... our family and several other Scot Irish families moved west to NW Ohio from Virginia and Pennsylvania as soon as it opened for settlers... since then, others came and our family grew large.... not quite like the melting pot in the east 💓
It seems the Ulster Scots history has been lost in the USA which is unfortunate. From an Ulster Scot still in Ulster it is great to see our shared heritage for which many try to make us ashamed.
This sounds like Arizona where cattle have the right away over your property
Texas has always had a very much bigger number of Plowboys than Cowboys, once The Scots-Irish moved in. Can you say Cotton Bowl Stadium?
Did the frontier man in the middle of this story do a dinner party featuring his native wife?
I beg your pardon but my Scots-Irish ancestors fought and died fighting for the Union!
The programme doesn`t deny scots irish fought for the Union, just that more proportionate numbers were Confederates.
All families have a few black sheep.
Dammed Yankees
Not sure why they are described as leisure oriented ...... They never have been interested in being rich and snobbish..... Not sure what they mean by " leisure" ... Omg.. I didn't know it was in my DNA to hate suburbs..... Houses need to be spread out... I don't mind being able to see them...but I got to not really be able to hear them... Got to have a big plot of land... With lots of trees.....lollll...
Leisure oriented? Penchant for harsh, unaged whiskey called shine. When Scots-Irish moved into a new area, the first two things they did was build a kirk and a still, and not in that order. See "the Journal of the Reverend Woodmason."
Ugh. Get me another squaw, I have cannibalized the previous one
I'm not following what would be particularly Calvinistic about thinking you have a mission. Scotch-Irish, maybe. Indo-European, maybe. But, Calvinism explicitly teaches that the fate of each person's soul was decided at the beginning of time and they cannot change it, nor can they presume to know what it is. So on an individual matter who would dare to evangelize to anyone else, and what would be the point. And what does any of this even have to do with missions or fates of nations?
If the Scotch-IRish themselves made some connection between predestination and the fate of nations, you're going to have to explicitly build the history of that for us, because no logical connection is there.
Stolen legacy ..!
Not in the whole discussion of the Civil War, was there even a single mention of African American slaves, the issue of slavery in the Civil War, the abolitionists, or of black soldiers fighting in it. Instead it is treated like it was some sort of dispute between northern Catholic recent immigrants and their Yankee overlords against the Protestant, mainly Presbyterian southerners. This is a ridiculous deception as to the real issues of the Civil War. The whole of the narration is completely laced with bigoted references, such as that Yellowstone was "discovered" by a white man, even though it admits that Native Americans were present there. Slavery is only mentioned as some kind of excuse for the conquest of the south rather than the actual truth, that it was the principle reason it was fought. Add to this, the disdain for unionism, and you have a veritable banquet of the right wing attitudes that dominate the politics of the south right down to this day. This film is pure propaganda.
Around 24 minutes in, I was struck by the guy on the horse talking about how Southerners thought anyone who worked super hard was doing something wrong. Never mind they had slaves working for them. Still watching, but I see what you mean so far.
Up yours race baiter. People like you are the cry babies of the earth. Not everything that everyone does or puts together must focus on your hate pushing ideas and libtard agenda. Hey, guess what? I'm sure I was in a rest area and of all the literature written on the wall I didn't find one, not one comment in regards to racism. I'm sure you'll have something to say about that. Thank god the writers left plenty of #'s for you to call and complain. Here's one 1-800-Piss-off. Douchebag.
This documentary wasn't about the Civil War or slavery, however, I personally would like to have seen at least a discussion of slavery and the range of attitudes towards it amongst the Scots-Irish. Most Scots-Irish were yeoman farmers or middle class, not wealthy plantation owners. Many Scots-Irish saw no sense in fighting to preserve slavery since they didn't own slaves themselves. This is why the Scots-Irish in western Virginia seceded from Virginia during the Civil War, to become West Virginia and remain in the Union. Also, your view of politics in the South is obviously not from experience. People here are fiercely pro-Union. My family alone have men from every generation who have fought to preserve and protect it in every generation from the War of Independence until today. My brothers and I have all served in the military, and all of us have been deployed overseas, with four stints in Iraq between us.
@@catherinewylie6959 Not in my southern family. We're descended from Scots Irish, and I guarantee you we were raised to work hard from dawn to dusk six days a week. Work hard, pray hard, play hard.
Actually it does cover, albeit briefly, the issue of slavery and the Civil War at about 37:00. Perhaps you didn't watch the whole video before making your blanket statement?