Repeating History

England and Scotland Flags

As anyone who has studied the history of the British Isle including Ireland will acknowledge that many years ago no one really got along with each other. England was always at war with Scotland in their efforts to take over the whole island. Ireland was always bossed around by England to go Protestant. The many years of their confrontation would still continue on to this day in another country.

As America was known then as the “New World” was being colonized along the Atlantic Coastal areas by these settlers, a pattern began to emerge. People from England were settling in the Northern areas while the Irish and Scottish were making the Southern areas. The Scottish settled in the mountains as the Irish settled in the flat lands and became farmers

Over time their respected cultures adapted to their new surroundings to the point that the English settlers were known as Yankees, the Scottish people living in the mountains became known as Hillbillies and the Irish became known as Rednecks. As events were leading up to the Civil War, one could easily see the cultural differences repeating themselves as they did years earlier in the Irish and British Isles.

USA (1863) and Confederate Flags

The Southerners (Irish and Scottish) were ready to go to war with the Northerners (England) in an effort to separate from what they felt were Northerners trying to dominate and control their lifestyle. One can make the argument of slavery and you would be right. But that was one of the many issues the Southerners had with the Northerners.

After the Civil War had ended in 1865 produced the same results that had taken place on the British Isles. The South was completely dominated by the North until 1877. Even afterwards Southerners were looked down upon and ridiculed by the North. The same British feelings towards the Irish and Scottish and vice versa were re-imagined and revitalized into today’s America’s North vs. South that still goes on to this day.