JTT--

I'm sure Riginslinger can regale you with all the details as to how poor the latest wave of Mexicans are. He's convinced they are a terrible drag on the US economy. After all it's usually the latest wave of immigrants which are the poorest. That would knock the "Scotch-Irish" out by a good bit. In Albion's Seed, an excellent book dealing with early British colonization of North America, David Hackett Fischer points out how in fact the largest number of presidents of the US come from that stock--including Johnson and Nixon. The connection with Johnson and Nixon (and Graham) is also noted in another excellent book about the English-Scottish border, Steel Bonnets.

If you have any actual evidence to support your notion about the "Scotch-Irish", please share it.