Scots-Irish

[ForresterModern]

Blackrose87

I think it is a major misunderstanding to believe that even a small percentage of US descendants of the original Ulster-scots who emigrated to America, most of those descendants being 4-8 or more generations removed from that original immigrant, would even be knowledgeable of how Northern Ireland was formed and their Ulster-scot ancestors came to be there in the first place, let alone any current events therein. After all, the emigrants did leave for some likely unhappy reason, and found a better life in America and thrived there, among difficult conditions. Except for trying to bring other relatives over to America they would likely have not communicated a bit or cared a whit about from whence they came, except to keep family histories and family lines alive. Multiple generations later, multiple periods of warfare and economic strife and major migrations on this side of the Atlantic tends to make one more concerned about their own local situations rather than those of a distant, both physically and temporally, land and it's relatively unchanging politics over the same period. It is more than understandable, nay expected, that those scots-irish descendants would have little knowledge or concern of the social or political conditions of those that remain in Northern Ireland today. Same probably exists for direct Scots descendants of conditions in Scotland, although it is more likely that more scots immigrants may have come over more recently and thus their descendants may still have maintained ties and lines of communication and knowledge of Scotland politics, especially since they are less politically and religiously charged and polarized than those of NI.