Back أمريكيون إسكتلنديون Arabic Scottish Americans English Inmigración escocesa en los Estados Unidos Spanish Scotto-Américains French Orang Skotlandia Amerika ID Scottish Americans SIMPLE Người Mỹ gốc Scotland Vietnamese 蘇格蘭裔美國人 Chinese
| Tot population | |
|---|---|
| Scottish Americans 20–25 million[1][2][3][4] Up to 8.3% of the U.S. population Scotch-Irish Americans 27–30 million[5][6] Up to 10% of the U.S. population 5,310,285 (2013 ACS) Scottish[7] | |
| Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
| Predominantly in New England, Appalachia an the Deep South Plurality in New York, West Virginia, Idaho, North Carolina, Florida an Pennsylvania[8] | |
| Leids | |
| English (American English dialects) Scottish Gaelic an Scots speaking minorities | |
| Releegion | |
| Christianity (including Presbyterianism, Baptist, Pentecostalism, Methodist, Protestantism an Roman Catholicism), ither releegions (including deism[9]) | |
| Relatit ethnic groups | |
| Scotch-Erse Americans, Inglis Americans, Irish Americans, Welsh Americans, Breetish Americans, Scots Canadians, Scotch-Erse Canadians, Scots Australians |
Scots Americans (Scots Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots: Scots-American) are Americans whase ancestry oreeginates halely or pairtly in Scotland. Scots Americans are closely relatit tae Scotch-Erse Americans, descendants o Ulster Scots, an communities emphasize an handsel a common heritage.[10] The majority o Scotch-Erse Americans oreeginally cam frae Lawland Scotland an Northren Ingland afore migrating tae the province o Ulster in Ireland (see Plantation o Ulster) an thance, beginnin aboot five generations later, tae North Americae in lairge nummers in the aichteent century.
Lairge-scale emigration frae Scotland tae Americae began in the 1700s, accelerating efter the Jacobite risin o 1745, the resultin breakup o the clan structurs, an the Hieland Clearances. Displaced Scots gaed in sairch o a better life an sattled in the thirteen colonies, ineetially aroond Sooth Carolina an Virginia, an then faur in successive generations.
- ↑ James McCarthy and Euan Hague, 'Race, Nation, and Nature: The Cultural Politics of "Celtic" Identification in the American West', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 94 Issue 2 (5 Nov 2004), p. 392, citing J. Hewitson, Tam Blake and Co.: The Story of the Scots in America (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 1993).
- ↑ Tartan Day 2007 Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, scotlandnow, Issue 7 (March 2007). Accessed 7 September 2008.
- ↑ "Scottish Parliament: Official Report, 11 September 2002, Col. 13525". Scottish.parliament.uk. Archived frae the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ "Scottish Parliament: European and External Relations Committee Agenda, 20th Meeting 2004 (Session 2), 30 November 2004, EU/S2/04/20/1" (PDF). Scottish.parliament.uk. 14 August 2011. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 5 Juin 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ James Webb, 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
- ↑ James Webb, Secret GOP Weapon: The Scots Irish Vote, Wall Street Journal (23 October 2004). Accessed 7 September 2008.
- ↑ "Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ↑ http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Scottish-and-Scotch-Irish-Americans.html. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Church, College, and Clergy, Page 76, Brian J. Fraser - 1995
- ↑ Celeste Ray, 'Introduction', p. 6, id., 'Scottish Immigration and Ethnic Organization in the United States', pp. 48-9, 62, 81, in id. (ed.), The Transatlantic Scots (Tuscaloosa, AL:University of Alabama Press, 2005).