Reply #22: The British populated America, Canada, Australia, and

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New Zealand with their prisoners and poor to settle it. They put the Scottish squatters off the land when the elite complained. The royals took the land for themselves. It was a huge land grab for Empire Building.

Most the Scottish settled in the Carolinas. Today only 3% of the population of North Carolina are Scottish. Many were sent to die in the wars, die of poverty, move to other areas, inter-marriage, etc.

After 911, I read an article about the Scot-Irish being good fighters and patriots in the Carolinas. Sign up boys...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances