Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
by James Webb

"These are the "red state" voters. They are family-oriented, take morality seriously, go to church, join the US military, support America’s wars, and listen to country music."

How the Scots Invented the Modern World
by Arthur Herman

"According to Herman, Knox’s goal was to turn Scots into God’s chosen people and Scotland into the New Jerusalem. He wiped out Catholicism and embraced Calvinism. Scottish society enveloped these principles."

Cracker Culture : Celtic Ways in the Old South
by Grady McWhiney
McWhiney uses this quote on the first page:

"Leisure is an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world.... Culture depends for its very existence on leisure [but] ... in our bourgeois Western world total labor has vanquished leisure.... [Unless] we regain the ... ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureand ourselves."

-Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, translated by Alexander Dru (New York, 1963), 11, 19-21

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Apples on the Flood: Minority Discourse and Appalachia
by Rodger Cunningham
Reviewer Stephen A. Hammack says:

"This is an excellent book for the layman and the expert. It continues the work done by Dr. Grady McWhiney and Dr. Forrest McDonald on the Celtic influence on the South, but is based on independent research".

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Cracker Cavaliers
by John Randolph Poole

"A Regimental History of the Second Georgia Cavalry under Forrest and Wheeler documents the regiment’s participation in major campaigns of the western theater, including the Atlanta Campaign and Sherman’s March to the sea from an ordinary soldier’s perspective on the Civil War."

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