Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "NYTN" channel.

@kathleenoconnell1635 And the only thing that is “Scotch” is a whiskey, not a person. There is no such thing as “Scotch-Irish”: as you astutely point out, the Scottish-Irish people are primarily the Scottish people who moved to Ireland, and now the term is often used for people who are descended from both Scottish and Irish people esp. through intermarriage, such as myself.
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⁠ @rypatmackrock The diaspora you mentioned from Philadelphia to Appalachia must have included my family’s Irish (or Scots-Irish) side, as, although I haven’t learned much about where that side came from, other than Connecticut or, likely Philadelphia, they all (and apparently, ALL) moved to West Virginia, even before West Virginia seceded from Virginia, except for one I found who settled in Virginia, probably earlier, as he was “supposedly” (I still have to do a lot more research on that to believe it) the first cousin of George Washington, and grew up “next door” to him, was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and owned slaves (oh great, right? /sarcasm). Only with my parent’s and my generations, have we moved to other parts of the country.
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@Rhuarc1 Yup. Originally from West Virginia, as is ALL my family, and proudly Irish, although I’m pretty sure we were Scottish and Irish, because even though my last name, Gilmore, is Irish, it is derived from the Scottish name (and I know I’m going to mess up the spelling here) McGillemoihre. My side of the family is all dark-haired (except for my great-aunt and myself who are/were redheaded), brown-eyed and non-Catholic. My father told me many of his ancestors were Blue-eyed Catholics. My mother’s side is mostly English, with some German. My DNA came back with some Norwegian, which surprised me, along with Iberian (Spanish or Portuguese), which was a huge surprise.
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Purposely.
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Now they just have gerrymandering. Some things never change. It’s criminal.
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@kennedyhogan9484 Yes, and we had already started the space race at that time. I also remember seeing MLK on TV and the police using fire hoses on Black people in the South who were protesting racism. I even still remember seeing Eisenhower in person as he drove (rather, was driven) past our neighborhood & he waved at my small group of friends. I also remember the Kennedy assassination, and driving to the coast (I lived in FL at that time) to watch the Apollo 11 launch. When Armstrong walked on the moon, I called my family home to make sure my grandfather (who was about 91 at that time. He passed shortly afterward) had watched it on TV. He had been around when the automobile was invented and Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first airplane flight. And my own mother was 5 years old when women first got the right to vote. An awful lot happens in only one or two generations. We think historical events always happened “way back when”, but it’s often more recent than we realize. And I can’t imagine any generation seeing more than mine, but I definitely think you “kids” are going to have us beat! And I’m “only” 73.
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⁠ @user-th1pv6ks5o I’m white, and I had grown up in the Midwest in a military neighborhood that was composed of White, Black, Japanese and German people, and others, so racism was not a “thing” there. It basically was not allowed. However, my family moved to Florida when I was 9 years old and I saw the “Whites Only” and “Coloreds Only” signs over water fountains and restrooms and I thought, “what kind of alternate world have I been dropped into??” I could not wait to grow up and get the h*ll out of there! I have seen some pretty awful things.
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