I just emailed Michael Lind to get him on the radio, which is something I've
> been meaning to do for a long while, and asked him a btw if he was
> Scots-Irish. His answer: yes, half, and the other, colder half is Swedish.
>
Yeah, but judging from his Wikipedia page, he seems to have been born and spent most of his life in Austin. I don't see any indication of him coming much closer to Scotch-Irish culture, in any sense that I would recognize it, than his time spent teaching at Virginia Tech. We're talking about an acquired culture here, not a blood taint. Malcolm Gladwell got into that on his chapter concerning this theory (which isn't a new one) in Outliers - the feistiness of Southerners does not hinge on our actual ancestry.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."