Quote Originally Posted by MacLowlife View Post
In some cases, it is an example of "Just because the cat had kittens in the oven, it doesn't make them biscuits", i.e., some Scots emigrated first to Ulster, then on to America. My Witherspoon ancestors stopped in Belfast, but not for a whole generation, before heading to Carolina.
In the case of these people, why didn't they refer to themselves as Scots instead of Ulster-Scots or Scots-Irish?
If they had only stopped for a short time in Ireland, then they wouldn't have had the same culture and traditions as the Ulstèr-Scotch fowk. It seems strange they would suddenly call themselves Irish.