Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Ulster Protestants who immigrated from northern Ireland to America during the 18th and 19th centuries, whose ancestors had originally migrated mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and northern England (and sometimes from the Anglo-Scottish border).[5][6]
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Self-identified "Scotch-Irish" 3,007,722 (2017)[1] 0.9% of the US population Estimate of Scots-Irish total 27,000,000 (2004)[2][3] Up to 9.2 % of the U.S. population (2004)[4] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| California, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, and Pennsylvania | |
| Languages | |
| English (American English dialects), Ulster Scots, Scots | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Calvinist (Presbyterian, Baptist, Quaker, Congregationalist) with a minority Methodist, Anglican, or Episcopalian | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Ulster Protestants, Ulster Scots, Anglo-Irish, English, Huguenots, Welsh, Manx, Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, English Americans, American ancestry |
Scotch-Irish Americans Media
An example, showing the usage of Scotch as an adjective, in the 4th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, Edinburgh, Scotland (1800), and modernized to Scottish in the 7th edition (1829).
A Map of Ireland. The counties are indicated by thin black lines, including those in Ulster in green, and the modern territory of Northern Ireland indicated by a heavy black border across the island that separates six of the Ulster counties from the other three.
Areas with greatest proportion of reported Scotch-Irish ancestry
References
- ↑ Selected Social Characteristics in the United States (DP02): 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ↑ Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (New York: Broadway Books, 2004), front flap: 'More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland.' ISBN 0-7679-1688-3
- ↑ Webb, James (October 23, 2004). "Secret GOP Weapon: The Scots Irish Vote". The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109814129391148708. Retrieved September 7, 2008.
- ↑ Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2004–2005 (August 26, 2004)United States Census Bureau. p. 8. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- ↑ Dolan, Jay P.. The Irish Americans: A History (2008)Bloomsbury Press. p. x. ISBN 978-1596914193.
- ↑ Scholarly estimates vary, but here are a few: "more than a quarter-million", Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Oxford University Press, USA (March 14, 1989), pg. 606; "200,000", Rouse, Parke Jr., The Great Wagon Road, Dietz Press, 2004, pg. 32; "...250,000 people left for America between 1717 and 1800...20,000 were Anglo-Irish, 20,000 were Gaelic Irish, and the remainder Ulster-Scots or Scotch-Irish...", Blethen, H.T. & Wood, C.W., From Ulster to Carolina, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 2005, pg. 22; "more than 100,000", Griffin, Patrick, The People with No Name, Princeton University Press, 2001, pg 1; "200,000", Leyburn, James G., The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, University of North Carolina Press, 1962, pg. 180; "225,000", Hansen, Marcus L., The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860, Cambridge, Mass, 1940, pg. 41; "250,000", Dunaway, Wayland F. The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, Genealogical Publishing Co (1944), pg. 41; "300,000", Barck, O.T. & Lefler, H.T., Colonial America, New York (1958), pg. 285.
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