Just How Celtic is America? 

No problem. It's great video

Masaman I was wondering why I was having issues uploading a comment the first time around

England annexed Scotland in 1707? What on earth are you on about? James VI King of Scotland was next in line for the English throne and became the legitimate monarch of both nations. How is that annexation? Even if it was that would be Scotland annexing England!

I thought you didn't want me to watch anymore videos. Lol I really appreciate your work .

Uhmmm.. did you forget breton(britanny) celts?

I would argue that the flag of Butan is cooler

Filthy welsh

covenanter Your faith blinds you. Y Draig coch is nothing to do with your devil. The dragon is a symbol for the old Brittonic people who existed before Christianity even touched our island. The red dragon fought the white dragon of the saxons. Saying that everything is biblical symbolism is both ignorant and idiotic.

Greg Daweson Sais bydr

By a sad and ineffectual lads mag yes?

Yep, it is called Breton Island for a reason. The Bretons are obviously Celtic

Yes im a French Canadian, Half Breton half Normandic, red beard, blue eyes and brown hair

i,m half English half Welsh red beard.blue eyes and brown hair

@@noifurze6397 just like me, a nordic french man

@@TheMatlemon the creator of this video is obviously ignorant about who, we Breton people are... he even called us French, how pathetic.

Its an understatement

Yes, more accurately ethnic cleansing or genocide

HOKUM, what does this have to do with the Celts?

@Nicholas O Donnell True, though understatement is very Irish! E.g. "the Troubles" (guerrilla war) and "the Penal Years" (actually lasted centuries).

Clearly stating land clearances, forced migration and famine would be more factual wouldn't it? Heads of Clans turned on their own for profit...same story as is happening today....

It makes sense for people groups such as the Celts, Armenians/Georgians and Levantines to have a bigger diaspora population, then it's native homeland population. These regions saw alot of empires, and those empires tended to displace entire people groups for political reasons.

No diaspora experience, though, could top the Jewish one, in which for 2000 years or more there have been A LOT more Jews outside Israel than in Israel, most of the time infinitely so!

Colonel Smith also italian diaspora

@@skytazt7457 Yes. I just didn't include that example. Italian diaspora has reached to a greater extent. It can be found across the US, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Uruguay, etc. 62.5% of Argentines have Italian blood. That's 25% of Argentina! I'm sure if there were some civil war or huge political unrest in the Americas, Italy would see a massive emergence of people with Italian blood going back to their ancestral home. Italy have a higher rate of population growth than they have now. Similar to Israel's population growth because of Jewish emigration to Israel. Or Armenians escaping war and political instability in the Middle East.

Many people live in places that they migrated to and tribes often conquered and settled outside of their birth place. Most of histories conflicts are related to migrating / conquering people

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd I'm not sure why you commented in my comment in such a way. Mine was merely a terminology correction and I can't help but feel you only commented because you felt your message might reach those who agreed with me. I'm not sure what nationality you are but as an Anglo-Briton I find your comment rude, and actually kind of offensive

What just like the Papacy sent the Normans to England to suppress the independence of the English, Scottish and Irish Churches.

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd Old English and its Church was wiped out by the Normans.

@Røry Ð That is rather problematic as the Celts were known to be southern Germans being blonde and blue eyed like the Franks, (part of a genetic change over the last 10,000 years due to agriculture). The Germans write proudly of their Celtic past. This is echoed in Celtic poetry (words like Blood, blonde and Blue share a common root. Words like Sun and son show German dialects shared the Celtic Gods Lugh (son) and Lugh of the Long Arm (Father). The later show origins to the henges, druids, Hyperboreans and the Temple at Brogdar Ness and New Grange. It is more likely hunter gatherer populations from the Mediterranean were driven to the Atlantic coasts in Europe. It is frequently said Welsh is an Iranian Dialect also fount in the Hindu Kush. Southern and south-east England was know to be little different from northern France before the Roman period and spoke a language like English (place name research).

@Mustafa Alam There are numerable cases of Welsh speakers and Farsi speakers being able to communicate. The Welsh are a leftover from the Iranic agricultural migration through Europe at the end of the ice age. They were then swamped by the Halstatt culture from Austria who Europeans call Celts. The word Celts (or heroes) originates from their belief that they will never die (from Druidism) just like the later Vikings believed.

Us fellow Celts will not forget the Cornish or Manx

I won't forget either

William t Sherman the civil war general was Cornish ,my grandma is from the same family some moved to America in the 1600s. she stayed in Cornwall

Aye, as I understand it "Cornwall" is an English word meaning "Cornish foreigners" in a way similar to how "Wales" is an English word meaning just "Foreigners". I don't suppose English people really think of the Cornish or Welsh as foreign anymore though, since we're all Brits of some sort.

@@TilveranWrites no we dont. I'm English and I have strong irish heritage from Dublin my family migrated here in the 19th century dna test said I have 13% celtic dna we love everyone in britain we are all equals despite what people think of us English

I liked the section stating that people living in the South are more likely to have black ancestors rather than Indian ancestors.

Spongebob Squarepants well In United States and Canada...literally almost none, Latin America on the other hand contains the bulk of the Amerindian population in the Americas, and if you count mestizos than that number pretty much triples

Almost 3% of white Americans have native blood and there is about 5 million full or half blood natives in America (US america)

It's everywhere.

@@shiny_teddiursa Mestizo means mixed in Spanish.

Yeah, you can tell by how many times they ask you if you could just loan em’ $20 bucks until next weekend.

Boston bro

@Agnostic Imperialist Ultra Nationalist Because its full of educated people.

Glasgow East End.

Nah. The South Shore of Massachusetts. I live here.

Your ancestors were raped, that's how you have %10🧙🏿‍♀️

I've never heard of Mickens as an Irish name (though spelling of such was not standardized until the 20th Century). Certainly Ulster (i.e. Scotch-Irish) descent is common among Southerners - especially from Appalachia west.

valois mickens . Is Valois your real first Name ??? It is a Beautiful Name ..Never heard of it before but i really like it .. I have heard of the Surname of Mickens befor though .

Wow... some ppl in this comment section are really racist and stupid -.- smh, damn get a life y'all However, a name does not say all about someones ethnicity. A DNA analyse tells all. Names were changes all the time. African americans were back then called by the name of their masters.

@Markheef Dessal exactly

He never claimed that Galician came from Portuguese. He just said that if you don't know any Galician, picture Portuguese with a little Celtic influence.

@@daisybrain9423 Is it true that the Celts originated from Central Europe such as Austria, Switzerland, Czech republic, and Southern Germany?

@@daisybrain9423 i didn't either. Just talking.

@@joaogabrielgama4925 Got ya :)

@@goheine Yes, that seems to be the region where the Celtic Indo-European culture originally formed.

When you mean Germanic. Do mean just Germany or England or etc

Albania is better. 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🇦🇱. Albanian army could destroy Canada 9 hours. Superior food as well while Canada copies British " cuisine ". Albania also has a history unlike Canada. Move to Albania bismallah. 🇦🇱 💪 💪 💪

​@@spooknut8625Albania is not good.

@@bigtex4864 shut up Angloid

A few people still speak Gaelic in some parts of the province of Nova Scotia, which also literally means "New Scotland"

Canada as a whole has been shaped disproportionately by the Scottish element, even more than in the US or Australia.

@@scarlett2299 True, but a. Appalachia isn't the whole of the US and b. those who went to Appalachia were Scotch-Irish (of Scottish descent but from Ulster and area in northern Ireland) and not from Scotland itself. Whereas Canada, plus New Zealand, did get proportionally lots from Scotland itself.

Shut up

Aren't Germans Anglo-Saxon too?

@iuvenis animo actually people with german ancestry in usa are 46 million and in germany are about 73 million...!!!

I am a black American with 14 percent Irish and 15 percent English. It’s true most black Americans have some form of European blood in us. Irish and English is 1 and 2. With Spanish German and French more than likely rounding out the top 5

@Georgios Chardavellas well,on wiki says 73 million...!!!

npc #1 In a way yes. Anglo-Saxons and Germans are Both Germanic peoples.

Apologies -I see you accept this in the video

Particularly the South Island round Dunedin & Christchurch. Christchurch has more Irish though. (The North Island is more Maori influence (almost as much as Sydney (running Australia / New Zealand discussion) - too cold down in the deep south most of the year).

They all look Irish, anyway!

@@Minstrel88 A large percentage of Irish though and a lot of influence on Australian history such as the formation of the Labor party and Eureka Stockade ect.

Yeah, they were mostly prisoners sent to Australia as a new jail sentence.

No, this is Patrick.

isn't it pronounced KEL-tic for scots and SEL-tic for irish? Either one is fine so the only difference is just geographical linguistics.

They are literally the same!

mentalfloss.com/article/77222/why-there-are-two-ways-pronounce-celtic

@@shiftydog6969 Keltic in Ireland

Yep.

There were people inhabiting the British Isles before the Celts ('pre-Celts'). They built Stonehenge.

Rohirrim: Anglo-Saxons Gondor: Romans Haradrim: Arabs Easterlings: Turks

Normans = Targaryans

Lol yes!!! Fuck yeah!

Yes, I think they are/were - they formed much of Europe - eg Bavaria, Austria, France(Gaul) and Ireland. The Irish were in Ireland in 2000BC! (skeletons found recently in Ireland and traced to the Celtic Homeland).

I'm 100% Irish! (Cork) - and my group is paired with Bohemia, which was Celtic (the Boii)!

Northern Scotland has so much Nordic DNA the language is different.

That Bald Guy Congratulations. So is Donald Trump,even his name is Celto-Germanic.

Celto Germanic too, most people don't get that Middle and Western Europeans are of celtic and germanic ancestry. "It is quite possible, even likely that a German-surnamed person would have Celtic genetic heritage. The Germanic wave moved slowly across central and northern Europe across geography already settled by Celtic groups. You will have trouble, in fact, finding any European who does not have some heritage of Celtic background. The Germans in their turn moved into every nook and cranny of Europe also. Celtic Germans Most people do not know that even names and adjectives we associate now with Germanic peoples were actually names of Celtic groups originally. The word Teuton, for instance, was originally the name of a Celtic tribe in northern Europe. The name became the name of a Germanic people, either by gradual merging through marriage or possible absorption of the original Celts in to the Germanic stream so that the orignal Teuton people became German-speaking." www.orvillejenkins.com/peoples/germanicceltic.html

​@legofreak446 We are the most influential group of the biggest Ethno-Group ( Indo-Europeans) Sadly we fought many wars against each other. It is really depressing. That's why I support the idea of a united European state. I don't support the current EU, but I don't think that it should be abolished, it rather should be reformed from within. There is enough shared culture and identity between the European States that it could be, like Rome, a Federal Republic or a Federal Empire, with autonomous regions that complement each other. I honestly love the USA, which is not a popular opinion, in certain parts of Europe. The states are the perfect prove that pan- Europaism does work and that people from all the European Nations can peacefully coexist.

Latin Europeans > Celto-Germanic

AmericanPatriot We lasted a thousand years united, from Italy to Spain France and Greece. All of which are still Latin/Greek today . You guys never united. Oh, we taught you guys how to write your names too. Also check out the U.S. capitol and see who conquered who.

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Correction:I,m part Irish.

Most people do not know anything about the Melungeons much less about their existence. It would be interesting to have a factual video.

close by, I have some as well.

You're not ulster scots, you're Scots-English.

@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 How do you know what he is? That's sectarian BS you're speaking.

@sum body That's unsubstantiated. An analysis of Melungeon surnames does not suggest Portuguese descent. The most common Mel. surnames are either English or Irish in origin, which suggests some mixing between British Isle settlers, natives, and possibly even African slaves. There are several DNA projects attempting to shed some light on this mystery.

Waste of time because Argentina is shit

The Welsh attempted to colonize the area around Philadelphia back in the 17th-18th centuries but largely failed, leaving behind place names like Bryn Mawr, Bala Cynwyd, etc.

@Jotham J nice, I wondered what it meant

Apart from being in Wales, which is true Welsh instead of your plastic cosplaying?

One of my theater friends is from Appalachia. It was in one of her plays that apple at 'cha is the origin and correct pronunciation. We had a fun discussion about it. John Appleseed was all over Appalachia.

Tower of Babel crap uniting as one bullshit

jonaverette do u have any family members who steal cars? 😂

That's because the scots irish are a 19th century myth created by the know nothing party, the majority of so called scots irish are really of native Irish ancestry. This is not to say that the scots irish don't exist, but they played a very small roll in Americas history, much smaller than the scots irish society would have you believe. Also what is a scots irish surname?

The scots irish are a myth created by the know nothing movement in the 19th century in order to write the Irish out of American history in order to justify bigotry towards them, the majority of the so called ''scots Irish'' were in reality just Irish, Meaning not descended from Scottish or English planters, not British. All public documents of the day, immigration lists, newspapers, etc. invariably refer to those colonists as “Irish”; that they called themselves “Irish” in America called them “Irish” and in many places ostracized them as such; that they called their settlements by Irish names; that they founded societies which they called “Irish” and celebrated the national festival of Ireland. Historian Micheal J O'brein actually painstakingly went through hundreds of news paper clippings, muster rolls ect and found that the majority also bore quintessentially Irish surnames, this doesn't include all the possible anglicized surnames. The Scottish connection to the so called ''scots Irish'' is a modern invention. In the United States in 1790 about 400,000 people of Irish birth or descent-about half were from an Ulster background, and the others from the three remaining provinces of Ireland. Blessing, Patrick J. (1980). "Irish". In Thernstrom, Stephan (ed.). Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 528. These people where Irish in every sense of the word and would have identified as Irish and were heavily intermixed with the native Irish if not completely native Irish. The majority of Irish Americans today are actually descended from Irish colonial immigrants and are mostly protestant, being protestant doesn't mean you're not Irish, Protestantism did not carry the same baggage as it did in the olde world. archive.org/details/hiddenphaseofame00obri/page/134 www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents books.google.ie/books?id=p07s4oueaPMC&pg=PA75&dq=Kerby+A.+Miller&as_brr=3&cd=7&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Kerby%20A.%20Miller&f=false See for yourself type in any Irish surname into this data base and look at the hundreds of results that come up in the American muster rolls. downloadbooks.live/pdf/20427084/books-s1s11956484s-1ss2s3efeed6es-2s

If your "Spanish" ancestry is from either the provinces of Galicia, or next door in Asturias or Cantabria then it is likely close to a 100% Celtic, they are very aware of their Celtic ancestry in those areas, they produce some great bag pipers

dean counts Oh that's true! My ancestry is more so centered around central Spain.

@Brennus of Gaul Oh really?

Because I thought that Galicia had Celtic roots.

@Brennus of Gaul Oh I see. Thanks!

100% of my ancestors are from the north of France

the Celtic cross is more popular in France than in the british island

Thats where the Irish came from, the Celtic Homeland! 4000 year old skeletons found in Ireland have DNA corresponding to bones found in Northern France. One found to be ancestor of a current Irish clan! So the Irish are Celtic and at least 4000 years old.

French are more Germanic.

Sweet

..."of the *Helvetii",* the name of the celtic tribe.

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HeIveticae doesn't mean "CeIts" (It's CeIticae), the heveIts was a tribe who Iive around Aventicum (Or Avenches), and who wiII trigger the Conquest of Rome, because they attacked the tribes who was aIIied with Rome

@J T Wrong! - the Irish came from the Celtic Homeland 4000 years ago. They are as Celtic as can be, including their language. See the "Indo-Europeans".

Was gonna watch your vids. But, you've not posted? Get busy, Early Man Productions! Why don't you make a vid, like you've requested?

North africa belongs to berbers

Nice casual racism there.

Well, I'm 100% Irish Celtic (no Danish) and my group is paired with Bohemia, which got its name from the Celtic Boii! So the Celts are still all over central Europe - Southern Germany is largely Celtic.

Tim Rosenburg the guy obviously hasn’t visited Britain or know that in Cumbria NW England there are still Celtic dialect words spoken.

Click on the closed caption (CC) button to get English subtitles. thanks

Yes some truth to that. No study yet released showing how much actual Celtic ancestry any country has but all the supposed Celtic countries are not very similar genetically. The Celtic Fringe and Brittany are similar but other populations Nope.

@@jackieblue1267 43% of DNA in Scotland is Irish - its about a third of the DNA in Wales.

McGlocklin likely an anglicised version of McLoughlin predominanylt in Ireland or McLaughlin predominantly in Scotland

@@seamusca99 Yeah I spoke to family and I spelled it wrong in my post it should be McLoughlin but when my son was born they misspelled it on his birth certificate unfortunately so his middle name is spelled MaCloughlin

@@seamusca99 it was supposed to be Killian McLoughlin Norris

The scots irish are a myth created by the know nothing movement in the 19th century in order to write the Irish out of American history in order to justify bigotry towards them, the majority of the so called ''scots Irish'' were in reality just Irish, Meaning not descended from Scottish or English planters, not British. All public documents of the day, immigration lists, newspapers, etc. invariably refer to those colonists as “Irish”; that they called themselves “Irish” in America called them “Irish” and in many places ostracized them as such; that they called their settlements by Irish names; that they founded societies which they called “Irish” and celebrated the national festival of Ireland. Historian Micheal J O'brein actually painstakingly went through hundreds of news paper clippings, muster rolls ect and found that the majority also bore quintessentially Irish surnames, this doesn't include all the possible anglicized surnames. The Scottish connection to the so called ''scots Irish'' is a modern invention. In the United States in 1790 about 400,000 people of Irish birth or descent-about half were from an Ulster background, and the others from the three remaining provinces of Ireland. Blessing, Patrick J. (1980). "Irish". In Thernstrom, Stephan (ed.). Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 528. These people where Irish in every sense of the word and would have identified as Irish and were heavily intermixed with the native Irish if not completely native Irish. The majority of Irish Americans today are actually descended from Irish colonial immigrants and are mostly protestant, being protestant doesn't mean you're not Irish, Protestantism did not carry the same baggage as it did in the olde world. archive.org/details/hiddenphaseofame00obri/page/134 www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents books.google.ie/books?id=p07s4oueaPMC&pg=PA75&dq=Kerby+A.+Miller&as_brr=3&cd=7&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Kerby%20A.%20Miller&f=false See for yourself type in any Irish surname into this data base and look at the hundreds of results that come up in the American muster rolls. downloadbooks.live/pdf/20427084/books-s1s11956484s-1ss2s3efeed6es-2s

Scots Irish is a myth , Appalachians are descendants of poor immigrants from England ,Ireland , Scotland, Wales and Germany who came during the 1700: and moved to cheap frontier lands. Many Appalachians are descendants of native Irish settlers of the region with names like Dougherty being common.

They changed Irish to Scotch-Irish!

@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 Interesting! Thank you for your well-researched reply.

Very interesting theory, I'll have to look into.

Masaman thanks, just giving out knowledge to one of my favorite channels to help it stay fresh & up to date on all things anthropology

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 just curious why is Canaan in your name?

'as well as English which is of course mostly Celtic in genetics' -- complete nonsense, and of course this gets 'loved' by OP.

@@lisampalestine6744 some distant levantine heritage from a ottoman great great grandfather

Good for you. One should always be proud of his ethnicity and roots

Does that mean you can pick a fight with yourself, and constantly drunk?

As a Welshman I can say you're welcome in Wales.

Trevor Lahey Smokes! Let’s go Trevor

No

@@Ru_1963 yep.

That was just Scotland.

@Searlaigh Daily Like it or not Ireland was part of the UK at one point in time, deal with it mate. It's just history.

@Searlaigh Daily Mate I'm not English, I'm Scottish ;)

@Searlaigh Daily A town called Peterhead in the NE

The racist English haters (of whom there are many here) seem to forget that it was a Scottish King (James VI) who forged a union between England and Scotland, also created the wicked Ulster Plantation, forcing out the Irish Catholics and he was also the first coloniser in America, hence the first settlement 'Jamestown'. But the English always get the blame for everything nasty. The Scots were pretty ruthless too.

@Kimberly Muro, it would make sense that PR has a huge Irish community, because the PR genetic pool has of the highest lineage in the Caribbean, that came from the Azores and Canary Islands, which happened to have Bloodlines of the Basques, which formerly intermingled with the Celts in Pre-Roman Europe and even up to modern times.

In particular because places like Ireland have mainly a non Celtic language yet is still considered as Celtic

@@marekobajtek2192 France, Spain and Portugal have been influenced far more both genetically and culturally by the Latin cultures than by the Celts. The Gauls were quite literally decimated by the Romans. Also the Germanic tribes, the Franks, Ostrogoth and Suebi all invaded France and Iberia making the Celtic origins even less significant. Also with the Spanish and Portuguese, centuries of Arab rule had a large effect on their language, culture and to some extent their genetics.

Macsen Wledig I realize that Iberia in particular switched hands a lot, and France also had a lot of Germanic contact, but would it really make the Celtic genes that insignificant in France? I heard that many people simply assimilated into Roman culture, but that there was a time of a couple centuries where most people were bilingual in Gaulish and Latin, and that Latin simply won over.

​@@marekobajtek2192 Yes Celtic genes are certainly present amongst the French, Spanish and likely southern Germans. Though to what extent they are present, I honestly don't know. Aside from Brittany and to a lesser extent Galicia, the people of France and Iberia do not culturally resemble the Celts very much at all so I wouldn't refer to them as Celtic.

im French, half Gauls, half frankish, I have blue eyes and a red beard with light brown hair

I am European and say "Selts"

Selts is wrong all native celts pronounce it with a hard c

In Scotland the football team Celtic is pronounced seltic they have lots of Irish fans aswell who pronounce it seltic not keltic

@@RH-ku3ol only when talking about the team though not Celtic people

@@oran9519 I know, but in my native language we say Celtas ("S") Sounds so much better :)

@Luciano Rodriguez O, thanks. I will be sure to check it out.

Do they offer Celtic languages?

Where precisely?

Here is a link to the Highland Arts page on their website. www.alma.edu/highland-arts/ The annual Highland Festival and Games is held on the campus at Alma College on Memorial Day weekend.

Not on site, it's offered as a program for students who are interested in international study.

Any hurling and Gaelic Football?

The scots irish are a myth created by the know nothing movement in the 19th century in order to write the Irish out of American history in order to justify bigotry towards them, the majority of the so called ''scots Irish'' were in reality just Irish, Meaning not descended from Scottish or English planters, not British. All public documents of the day, immigration lists, newspapers, etc. invariably refer to those colonists as “Irish”; that they called themselves “Irish” in America called them “Irish” and in many places ostracized them as such; that they called their settlements by Irish names; that they founded societies which they called “Irish” and celebrated the national festival of Ireland. Historian Micheal J O'brein actually painstakingly went through hundreds of news paper clippings, muster rolls ect and found that the majority also bore quintessentially Irish surnames, this doesn't include all the possible anglicized surnames. The Scottish connection to the so called ''scots Irish'' is a modern invention. In the United States in 1790 about 400,000 people of Irish birth or descent-about half were from an Ulster background, and the others from the three remaining provinces of Ireland. Blessing, Patrick J. (1980). "Irish". In Thernstrom, Stephan (ed.). Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 528. These people where Irish in every sense of the word and would have identified as Irish and were heavily intermixed with the native Irish if not completely native Irish. The majority of Irish Americans today are actually descended from Irish colonial immigrants and are mostly protestant, being protestant doesn't mean you're not Irish, Protestantism did not carry the same baggage as it did in the olde world. archive.org/details/hiddenphaseofame00obri/page/134 www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents books.google.ie/books?id=p07s4oueaPMC&pg=PA75&dq=Kerby+A.+Miller&as_brr=3&cd=7&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Kerby%20A.%20Miller&f=false See for yourself type in any Irish surname into this data base and look at the hundreds of results that come up in the American muster rolls. downloadbooks.live/pdf/20427084/books-s1s11956484s-1ss2s3efeed6es-2s

The ''scots-Irish'' didn't contribute that much to America, it was actually the native Irish who were later relabeled as scots irish.