One of the interesting things about the Scots-Irish migration to the USA is that entire families migrated together. In many instances two or three brothers would migrate from Scotland together, many others migrated as an entire family unit. No wonder some folks call us "clannish". Their very difficult life in Scotland made them very well suited to the rigors of frontier living in the US.

Many of the Scots-Irish originally migrated to Pennsylvania and later migrated down the Great Wagon Trail to Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia.