Reply #63: Oh yes, the famed Celtic Thesis: A Great Crock o'Crap.

[The Midway Rebel]

The historian Grady McWhiney first proposed that "Celtic Thesis" to explain Southern behaviors and actions back in the 1950's.

That theory does not consider the huge immigration of Irish into Northern cities nor that the Southern planter class had much more in common, ancestrally and culturally, to the English gentry.

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

It makes a swell story with a small grain of truth to it but mostly it is complete bullshit. Baegant leans heavily on McWhinney's faulty theory with a mixtrue of quaint anecdotes to make an article that perpetuates the "Celtic Thesis".

I'd take it with a grain of salt.