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Old Posted Nov 30, 2020, 9:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Centropolis View Post
i did overlook the urban populations of scots-irish. even my german ancestors basically jumped on the scots-irish crazy-train, landing at philadelphia first pre-revolution. i did so primarily because, well, they simply arrived so early - flowing into a crazy post-apocalyptic vacuum (collapse of native societies) developing their own traits in isolation - aside from the “western” cities of course like pgh, cincy, even st. louis. the creole population had some interesting commentary when the “kentuckians” (or pennsylvanians) arrived en masse...
Well, much of rural/small town Pennsylvania is Scots-Irish too.

Not sure what you mean by "Scots-Irish crazy train"..?
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