But a lot of liberals, not just ignorant conservatives, apparently hang on Sowell's pathetic account nonetheless, eg Professor Kaiser, who especially likes to follow Tocqueville....
The account they retail is that Southern whites are a lower order European white from those found in the colonial and postcolonial North.
They are actually considered by these white Stokely liberals to be racially and spiritually inferior to the Africa negro slaves, and free negroes, in their Southern white degenerate midst.
"...However, McWhiney's theories do not address large-scale Irish immigration to New York, Boston, and other northern cities. They also ignore the degree to which the Southern planter class resembled the English gentry in lineage, religion, and social structure. Furthermore his work avoids mentioning or acknowledging the fact that the largest group of pre-Revolution immigrants to the Southern colonies were English indentured servants who vastly outnumbered the "Celtic" settlers both in numbers and in cultural influence..." Wikipedia
I follow Wikipedia blindly here, given the alternatives.
I suggest taking a look at Bailyn's great work on British isles migration, Voyagers To The West.
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