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PKMKII wrote:The Scots who immigrated to the U.S. to escape the economic desperation of the hills of Scotland. So they arrived in the U.S., took one look at the Appalachian Mountains, and went "Look! Isolated, unproductive hills with no chance of economic opportunity! Let's move there."
PKMKII wrote:The Scots who immigrated to the U.S. to escape the economic desperation of the hills of Scotland. So they arrived in the U.S., took one look at the Appalachian Mountains, and went "Look! Isolated, unproductive hills with no chance of economic opportunity! Let's move there."
PKMKII wrote:The Scots who immigrated to the U.S. to escape the economic desperation of the hills of Scotland. So they arrived in the U.S., took one look at the Appalachian Mountains, and went "Look! Isolated, unproductive hills with no chance of economic opportunity! Let's move there."

DavidH wrote:But of course the original Scots came from Ireland. Then later on some of them went back and turned into Orangemen. Bad idea all round.
DavidH wrote:But of course the original Scots came from Ireland. Then later on some of them went back and turned into Orangemen. Bad idea all round.
The Orange Order is an organisation which protects the UK from the evils of Catholicism by invoking the name of a gay Dutchman who had no right to the throne in the first place. Every year they incite religious hatred and bigotry to celebrate a battle that happened back when your country still acknowledged the truth that it is nothing more than a colony.ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:DavidH wrote:But of course the original Scots came from Ireland. Then later on some of them went back and turned into Orangemen. Bad idea all round.
You mean they went to Syracuse?
Ubi Dubius wrote:PKMKII wrote:The Scots who immigrated to the U.S. to escape the economic desperation of the hills of Scotland. So they arrived in the U.S., took one look at the Appalachian Mountains, and went "Look! Isolated, unproductive hills with no chance of economic opportunity! Let's move there."
Garrison Keillor made a similar point about the Norwegians leaving Norway because it was horrible, cold, rocky and hard to farm. The liked Minnesota because it reminded them of home.

Roy Hunter wrote:The Orange Order is an organisation which protects the UK from the evils of Catholicism by invoking the name of a gay Dutchman who had no right to the throne in the first place. Every year they incite religious hatred and bigotry to celebrate a battle that happened back when your country still acknowledged the truth that it is nothing more than a colony.ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:DavidH wrote:But of course the original Scots came from Ireland. Then later on some of them went back and turned into Orangemen. Bad idea all round.
You mean they went to Syracuse?

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