Tot population | |
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Scottish Americans 20–25 million[1][2][3][4] Up to 8.3% of the U.S. population Scotch-Irish Americans 27–30 million[5][6] Up to 10% of the U.S. population 5,310,285 (2013 ACS) Scottish[7] | |
Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
Predominantly in New England, Appalachia an the Deep South Plurality in New York, West Virginia, Idaho, North Carolina, Florida an Pennsylvania[8] | |
Leids | |
English (American English dialects) Scottish Gaelic an Scots speaking minorities | |
Releegion | |
Christianity (including Presbyterianism, Baptist, Pentecostalism, Methodist, Protestantism an Roman Catholicism), ither releegions (including deism[9]) | |
Relatit ethnic groups | |
Scotch-Erse Americans, Inglis Americans, Irish Americans, Welsh Americans, Breetish Americans, Scots Canadians, Scotch-Erse Canadians, Scots Australians |
Scots Americans (Scots Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots: Scots-American) are Americans whase ancestry oreeginates halely or pairtly in Scotland. Scots Americans are closely relatit tae Scotch-Erse Americans, descendants o Ulster Scots, an communities emphasize an handsel a common heritage.[10] The majority o Scotch-Erse Americans oreeginally cam frae Lawland Scotland an Northren Ingland afore migrating tae the province o Ulster in Ireland (see Plantation o Ulster) an thance, beginnin aboot five generations later, tae North Americae in lairge nummers in the aichteent century.
Lairge-scale emigration frae Scotland tae Americae began in the 1700s, accelerating efter the Jacobite risin o 1745, the resultin breakup o the clan structurs, an the Hieland Clearances. Displaced Scots gaed in sairch o a better life an sattled in the thirteen colonies, ineetially aroond Sooth Carolina an Virginia, an then faur in successive generations.
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