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Originally Posted by Shawn
Those were mostly Scots-Irish: Scottish colonizers of Ireland (Ulster County, i.e. today's Northern Ireland) who then moved to the southern US. They mostly came over before the Irish.
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Ulster's a province, not a county
Interestingly, even though Ulster and Northern Ireland are pretty much synonymous today, three of the counties that make the historical Ulster actually belong to the Republic of Ireland.
I personally do identify with my Irishness, but then again, I've got an excuse - I'm half Irish, was born in Dublin, and carry an Irish passport along with my Canadian one.