Scots-Irish in America

Belfast Telegraph:

"Federal Government estimates, conveyed in the 2000 census, reveal that in the United States an estimated 44 million people have Irish identity, in various forms.

"Of these, 56% are identified as tracing their roots back to families, mainly of Presbyterian stock, who moved from Ulster through the 18th century."

So writes Bill Kennedy, author of nine books on the Scots-Irish and their role in the settlement of the American frontier, especially the area stretching from western Pennsylvania through the western portions of Virginia (including what later became West Virginia) and the Carolinas and into the eastern portions of Kentucky and Tennessee. My paternal granmother was a McHugh, so I figure this is a part of my heritage as well. The article includes a list of Kennedy's books which might be of interest to others, especially Southrons, who share this inheritance.