Dimsie

Whisky ?

Yes please - no ice!

NC Penguin

As a counterbalance to Patrick's coastal NC city, my NC city's racial profile looks like this-

* Black (43.8%)
* White Non-Hispanic (42.4%)
* Hispanic (8.6%)
* Other race (4.7%)
* Two or more races (1.9%)
* Asian Indian (1.3%)
* Chinese (1.1%)
* American Indian (0.8%)




NC Penguin

Jan Alaska

Our town/city isnt listed, maybe we dont exist ??

gruffbrown

Neither is ours population 80,000 although strangely the mall is

Ray

Races in my hick town

White Non-Hispanic (92.9%)
Hispanic (1.6%)
Two or more races (1.2%)
American Indian (0.8%)
Nascar (0.5%)
Question too difficult (2.5%)

NC Penguin

Are you an incorporate town/city? Maybe that's why you're not to be found.



NC Penguin

Pulaski

Too true! ... I've seen references to people being Scotch-Irish, and who are Catholic. .... Americans generally know diddly squat about the history of their ancestors, those who emigrated to America, and even their own personal ancestry - which I guess also expalins those who give their ethnicity as "European" or "North European".

ukemigrant

Being as my great grandmother was from Scotland, and I was born in Ireland, I consider myself Scotch-Irish, in the same way people here say they're of Polish/Italian descent. Having said that I wouldn't expect to see Polish/Italian on any census form

Edited: having just read pulaski's post, I'll add that I'm Catholic too Don't know if that means I can't be S-I. Also my grandfather was a Protestant so I'm a regular mixed bag (and for the record my wife's Polish/Italian

gruffbrown

Been meaning to ask, are you really an asteroids champion? Totally addicted to that game .......in the 80's.........in pubs.....drunk

ImHere

Heres mine:

* White Non-Hispanic (84.2%)
* Hispanic (8.5%)
* Black (3.8%)
* Two or more races (1.9%)
* Other race (1.4%)
* Asian Indian (0.7%)
* Chinese (0.5%)

Ancestries: German (14.5%), Italian (12.6%), Irish (12.2%), English (9.5%), Polish (6.0%), United States (5.7%).

But more importantly check out how much house prices have gone up here!! :

Single-family new house construction building permits:

* 1996: 378 buildings, average cost: $160,900
* 1997: 213 buildings, average cost: $99,700
* 1998: 178 buildings, average cost: $269,000
* 1999: 151 buildings, average cost: $352,700
* 2000: 119 buildings, average cost: $372,900
* 2002: 86 buildings, average cost: $568,900
* 2003: 89 buildings, average cost: $645,400


And now stick another $150k on for 2004 and you have an average house price for a new single family home at $800K!

gruffbrown

F**kaduck, not much chance of being a successful contractor in Boca Roton then............

ImHere

'Spensive round here innit. Apparently real estate here is some of the most expensive in the whole of the US..even more than manhattan Island in some places, and all because the rich old New Yorkers want to come here to snuff it in the sun...

Avg High temperature (°F)
Jan 75.7
Feb 76.7
Mar 79.4
Apr 82.3
May 85.9
Jun 88.5
Jul 90.2
Aug 90.3
Sep 89.1
Oct 85.7
Nov 81.1
Dec 77.0

Annual average of 76% sunny days

gruffbrown

Niiicce......the people we bought our house off moved to Florida....as do most of Noo Joisey.

Pulaski

You are truely Scottish-Irish, but that is not at all the same as Scotch-Irish per American folklaw - which applies the term (in theory at least) to immigrants from Ireland (geographically) but who were of (specifically) Scottish ancestry. This would pretty much preclude anyone who is true Scotch-Irish from being Catholic as the Scottish emigrants to Ireland were/ (almost?) exclusively protestant (presbyterian).

It was this influx of Scottish protestants into a land populated by native Irish Catholics that caused the, still on-going, "troubles" in Ireland. Which of course makes absurd the idea that anyone who is true Scotch-Irish claiming to be "Irish" and taking up with the whole "Americans all have some Irish ancestry" crap.

Aside from the inter-marrying, either you are of Irish ancestry, and Catholic, or Scotch-Irish (of Scottish ancestry but arriving in America by way of ancesters who emigrated to Ireland), and protestant.

ScotsmanInTexas

Spot on Pulaski. The past is the past and what was done in past centuries, rightly or wrongly is the root of the whole problem in NI today. ukemigrant could consider himself truly Scots-Irish I suppose if he felt inclined to, but the American definition is plain stupid and is in the face of the history of Ireland and the plantation of NI, to the point of being silly. Seems to me that the people who left Ulster for the USA were hardly just in the place themselves before leaving - a couple of generations at most - nevermind suddenly having Irish ancestry through marriage or ancestry.

I suppose in Glasgow & Edinburgh today you'd find genuine Scots-Irish or English-Irish for that matter in places like Liverpool (if anyone chose that stupid description of themselves, due to intermarriage and greater religious tolerance, marriage between protestant and catholics (least the descendents of irish emigrants, there are also catholics who are of Scottish families of course) makes this so. Since the 70's in particular it has become more common in British cities, communities are more integrated, today it probably matters less than it ever did.

American propaganda has a lot to answer for. The Irish as a community who settled in America suffered awful indignities and were denied employment & housing in the USA - NO IRISH NEED APPLY etc.. etc.. The US now tries to blot this out of history or make out as though it never actually happened, by exagerating the Irish influence and going over board on St Patricks day. IMHO it's an act of guilt.

I'm a bit suspicious about the whole idea of Tartan Day also, but then that's just little old paranoid me. So maybe I don't like rich patronising NY jerks going around looking like Andy Stewart after 10 beers and a fight, or talking about events of 800 years as though it just happened. I mean come on a lot happened in British history since then and when I see a jerk dressed up like a 300 year old Jacobite lamenting about the lot of the little Belgian poof - well sorry but I just want to slap some sense into him. Oddly enough the same crowd turns out for rich St. Patricks Day bashes (Don't you just hate the ones who call it St Patties?) I certainly couldn't afford to go to such a thing and besides which I wouldn't be on the guest list for one of these socialite bashes.

I've met some of these 'Scots-Irish' Americans, invariably they are protestant, middle-class and have very little knowledge of anything Scots, Irish or anything in-between. I dunno maybe it's just me?