Imagine the trains we could've had if Pangea had stayed together
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Related: much of Appalachia, and the people later termed hillbillies, are Scots-Irish by descent. The history of the Scots-Irish of America is interesting. Lots of them landed in Pennsylvania originally, only to progress southward to the cheaper “frontier” lands. Lots of the most rabidly pro-independence agitators of the American Revolution were Scots-Irish Pennsylvanians.
The Scots-Irish, as far as I understood from my reading a while back, were practically trained settlers. They are descendants of the Scottish settlers of the Plantation of Ireland. Those who didn’t find success settling Ireland then moved on to settling the indigenous land in the Americas. Now, that’s a bit unfair as I think some of them were essentially forced to go (e.g. prisoners, lawbreakers) but that’s the gist.
I think this is more about how the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are literally the same mountain range, geologically speaking
Yea I know, just thought it was kind of poetic that the Appalachians would later be populated by Scots
Makes sense that they'd sorta end up in the same place they came from. Similar environment for agriculture and mining.
Saying this as someone who's from Appalachia lol
Presumably Appalachia is just waiting for Scottish independence before seceding from the USA and joining the Scottish Federation?
If you polled the average person in WNC, you'd have a lot of agreement with that lol
The atlas mountains are just standing off to the side observing I guess