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Title: Way off the mark!
Review: This book misses the mark almost completely! The south's culture and origins rests more in the Anglo-protestant tradition. The patriarchs of the south were mostly of English descent. Their plantations were mini-recreations of what they remembered the British Aristocracy to possess. Granted, there was a large Scottish influx in the south, especially in Virginia and North Carolina, the majority of Celtic Scots, Irishmen and Welsh settled in the North. It doesn't account for why more Irishmen, Scots and Welsh fought for the North and yet there was so much more hostility. Those Irishmen and Scots who fought in the North came from an Ireland and Scotland that was subject to the English and viewed the south, with its slavery, as a re-creation of what they'd left behind. They wanted no man to be subjected to such ways. The northern anglos referred to in this book came from the line of those who split with the crown. Cracker ways indeed! I wished I hadn't bought this one. It was a waste.
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