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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting take on the Anglo vs Scots divide

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-white-americans-wasps-why-matters-michael-robinson-byrd

Imagine you are at an extended family reunion. Two main branches are present: the Scots and the English. The Scots family descend from the Celts, along with the Picts and the Vikings. The English family also descend from the Celts but have had a whole bunch of other families force their ways into the bloodline; included in that ancestry is DNA from the Romans, the Angles, Normans, Gauls, Danes, Jutes and Saxons. While the Celt line is present in both families, the Scots family can’t stand their distant cousins, the English. The Scots think the English are hypocrites and colonizing bullies who put on airs. The English think the Scots are savages to be tamed. This family dynamic is one giant tit-for-tat that has been going on for centuries, and the current problem of American political paralysis is a consequence.

The term W.A.S.P. means White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant and is generally used today to describe all White, non-Catholic, non-Jewish people in America. This lens was applied to all White Americans in the 1920’s to encourage the immigrating Catholics and Jews from Europe to assimilate into a W.A.S.P. ideal. However, the term only describes the modern voting bloc descended from England who are primarily Democrats and reside in the American Northeast.

The moniker completely ignores the Scots-descended voting bloc, who were never Anglo nor Saxon. These men and women are the Republican voters in the South, Midwest, the Plains, and Mountain West, whose population is more than quadruple that of the English descendants. For social movements and minority voting blocs seeking to blunt the impact of ‘states’ rights’ and achieve legislative consensus to codify laws that benefit their communities, it will require treating these White voting blocs as distinct ethnic groups. By tailoring political messaging for each group, we can get the machinery of politics moving again.

The English wanted to control the Scots for a few reasons. The first is that, well, who didn’t the English want to control? The old phrase “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire” had a very specific meaning: they were everywhere.

Militarily, the English wanted to conquer Scotland for territorial integrity and peace of mind.

Economically, they wanted their lands for sheep grazing, as Scotland had and still has the perfect environment for sheep but not much else. Wool used to be the main export for England and the country remains one of the top five wool exporters in the world today.

Politically and perhaps most significantly, the Scottish power structure offended and scared the English monarchs. The Picts and Celts, and then the Scots, always had a clan-based, bottom-up, Confederacy-style view of democracy that has never been friendly to central authority – even that of its own kings. Once the Romans conquered England, the English and their contributing bloodlines have always had a strong central authority and top-down view of society. The Normans then fortified the monarchy and peerage system England uses today. These worldviews have clashed for two thousand years as the English rulers have repeatedly tried to bring the Scots to heel. Just because these two groups left Britain doesn’t mean their rivalry ceased.

David Brooks noted this phenomenon. “Do you want to predict how a certain region is going to vote in the 2020 presidential race? Discover who settled the region in the 17th and 18th centuries. If the settlers were from the East Anglia section of Britain, then that region is probably going Democratic. If the settlers were from the north of Britain, that region is very likely to vote for Donald Trump.” His article highlights research from Gary Miller and Norman Shofield, along with work from Jonathan Rauch here. Cameron Joseph covered it in The Atlantic; Thomas Friedmancovered it in the New York Times. Tim Miller even covered it on Morning Joe when he said that Trump’s rise to power was “a bottom-up thing.” In fact, it was a Scottish thing.

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This is very interesting. To add, Trump's mother was born in Scotland. Also, most white folks are a mix of ethnicities. It was common among Whites of my boomer generation to rattle off their ethnicity as part of their introductory phase when they're dating. Vanna White has many times stated she's German, Italian and Spanish. Pat Sajak used to joke he was straight Polish despite his first name which is common among the Irish. The WASPs are not a monolith. A lot of them are part German or Irish or something else. [/quote]

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