You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if … - John Shelton Reed

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John Shelton Reed

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

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