Nice to meet you Annie

I agree with Shelby to a point. It was the beginning of our powerful federal government and our economic system. Which has morphed considerably since. But to use that history to understand us now is to miss what we have become from other sources. Half of the population of the United States have no personal ties to that period.

I am a Southerner with very deep roots in the South. I am of Scots-Irish, Irish, Scottish, German, Welsh, English lineage. I unfortunately do not believe that there were 'Celtic ways' in the old South and these 'ways' were the major dynamic of Southern American culture. This is a modern view that has become popular with some in the last twenty years and I believe was not a major part of the American South in the 1600s through the early 1800s.

Although I respect those in Great Britain and elsewhere that believe they are Celtic and call themselves Celtic I do not believe historically that this cultural development is apart of Southern American history or culture. But there are those who will argue that point.

David