Comments on: Irish, Scots-Irish, and Southern http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2009/09/25/irish-scots-irish-and-southern/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:20:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: backbaygrouch4 http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2009/09/25/irish-scots-irish-and-southern/comment-page-1/#comment-44813 backbaygrouch4 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:19:39 +0000 http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/?p=4808#comment-44813 Speaker John McCormack had a sad childhood. His Irish Catholic father died when he was young. That was the story he told all his life. But a biographer unearthed a different tale. His Scots-Irish Protestant father from PEI deserted the family and lived to see his son, who would never acknowledge him, sitting in Congress. His immigrant mother was born in America. A fascinating story of the Celtic differences and political subterfuge. In its own way it explains why in Washington his closest friends and allies were more often Scotch--Irish from the Southern Highlands than big Northern city ward heelers. This story rocked Boston a decade or so ago. The intro is a bit over long, Bob, but you will enjoy it. http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:77HOWqy_J5QJ:www.apsanet.org/~lss/Newsletter/jan00/nelson.html+%22john+w+mccormack%22+biography+author+professor+vermont&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&ie=UTF-8 Speaker John McCormack had a sad childhood. His Irish Catholic father died when he was young. That was the story he told all his life. But a biographer unearthed a different tale. His Scots-Irish Protestant father from PEI deserted the family and lived to see his son, who would never acknowledge him, sitting in Congress. His immigrant mother was born in America. A fascinating story of the Celtic differences and political subterfuge. In its own way it explains why in Washington his closest friends and allies were more often Scotch–Irish from the Southern Highlands than big Northern city ward heelers. This story rocked Boston a decade or so ago.

The intro is a bit over long, Bob, but you will enjoy it.

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:77HOWqy_J5QJ:www.apsanet.org/~lss/Newsletter/jan00/nelson.html+%22john+w+mccormack%22+biography+author+professor+vermont&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&ie=UTF-8

]]> By: Simmons http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2009/09/25/irish-scots-irish-and-southern/comment-page-1/#comment-44809 Simmons Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:22:54 +0000 http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/?p=4808#comment-44809 I have sympathy for Obama believe it or not because I too am a product of a mixed race marriage. Father from a family of borderlands English and a mother from New England Tory blood via the Danelaw/Puritan background (they skipped off to Canada to avoid getting tarred and feathered during America's last good war). The conflicts in my own life because of this genetic inheritance is why I am a "racist", because race (genetics matter) for good or bad, you cannot escape it no matter how much PC dogma you spout. I have sympathy for Obama believe it or not because I too am a product of a mixed race marriage. Father from a family of borderlands English and a mother from New England Tory blood via the Danelaw/Puritan background (they skipped off to Canada to avoid getting tarred and feathered during America’s last good war). The conflicts in my own life because of this genetic inheritance is why I am a “racist”, because race (genetics matter) for good or bad, you cannot escape it no matter how much PC dogma you spout.

]]> By: shari http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2009/09/25/irish-scots-irish-and-southern/comment-page-1/#comment-44807 shari Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:46:25 +0000 http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/?p=4808#comment-44807 Weren't the Picts the ones that Hadrian's wall was built to keep OUT? As for the Buckleys, I don't think that the Norman's would have given them the time of day, as they becames the elites later on. I think all these things are interesting because they LEAD somewhere. A blended brown race leads NOWHERE. Weren’t the Picts the ones that Hadrian’s wall was built to keep OUT? As for the Buckleys, I don’t think that the Norman’s would have given them the time of day, as they becames the elites later on. I think all these things are interesting because they LEAD somewhere. A blended brown race leads NOWHERE.

]]> By: Dave http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2009/09/25/irish-scots-irish-and-southern/comment-page-1/#comment-44806 Dave Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:33:31 +0000 http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/?p=4808#comment-44806 It is true that most people in America wouldn’t understand these complications today. But the conceits of the Buckley’s have a contemporaneous meaning that shows up in the British National Party carrying the resentments of Britain’s “Celtic fringe”. Nor are these kinds of complications lost upon the elites of Asia who have sensitivities to intra-racial nuances unbelievable to most Americans, the curse of “village feet” delivering a goodly number of people into slavery this very day. Do not cue in Mommy Professor who wants to pretend that race and its nuances aren’t for real. Let her go on kidding herself her Established Religion can abolish them. It is true that most people in America wouldn’t understand these complications today.

But the conceits of the Buckley’s have a contemporaneous meaning that shows up in the British National Party carrying the resentments of Britain’s “Celtic fringe”.

Nor are these kinds of complications lost upon the elites of Asia who have sensitivities to intra-racial nuances unbelievable to most Americans, the curse of “village feet” delivering a goodly number of people into slavery this very day.

Do not cue in Mommy Professor who wants to pretend that race and its nuances aren’t for real. Let her go on kidding herself her Established Religion can abolish them.

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