Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Understanding America" video.

  1. TV shows are bad to claim that everyone is “Scots-Irish.” When you compare surnames, it's not that at all. In Kentucky and Virginia, the majority are English names, with a few Scots and Irish here and there. I'll bet that is true for almost every state south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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  2.  @Thomas-rv1wi  I think it has a different meaning, here, in the US. It's from those that love to hyphenate. Out of my four grandparents, three surnames are English, and one is French. One of my great-great-grandmothers was a Fuller from Germany, which would have been in the 1860s. Really, in the US, there is a lot of mixture, but mine was predominately English. It's especially so in Virginia and Kentucky, with many. The four were Mattingly, Bingham, Hackney, and Ramey. The way I see it, you are what you're born. I would be a North American on one hand, and since the US is made up of fifty states, I am a Kentuckian, due to being born there, with mostly English ancestry. The French in me was from the Huguenots that came here; the Remi family, renamed Ramey.
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