Cracker Culture (Celtic Ways In The Old South) by Grady Mc Whiney

Synopsis

Dr McWhiney's publication is a classic. It states the conspicuous, i.e. in the course of early American annals and the action of Europeans into the New World, the Celtic edge of the British archipelago peopled the American South; which has had a deep leverage of Southern society. Native Irish, Ulster Scots, Welsh, Border English, Hebrideans, etc., sort of a Celtic broth of kinds, peopled the early South. His publication is only contentious to Anglo-centric historians who are still in renunciation that Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, etc., are really part of our annals and who like to imagine they are just footnotes of English history. And furthermore, contentious to democratically minded persons who use 'history' to farther political objectives. The publication is great; a good read, with quantitative study and anecdotal research. It is just untainted study with no agenda, a pleasing change in fact. It can be read directly through or by leaping round by topic. One desires more past notes were like this.

 

Interpretation

It wasn't habitually so. In our revolutionary time span, Southerners were just as furious at British infringements in the North as Northerners were, while Northerners barracked South Carolina's triumph at Sullivan's Island just as passionately as Southrons did. Virginians like George Washington and Daniel Morgan battled in the North while the utmost general of the Southern theater was the Rhode Islander Nathaniel Greene. 

Why did Northern and Southern harmony rapidly become mutual doubt and finally disintegrate into hostility? Was rush the only reason? To Grady McWhiney, the inquiry is mostly a heritage one. McWhiney feels that Southern heritage was and is Celtic. Most of the initial settlers in the North came from England, while most of the South's early settlers came from the most Celtic ...