Repeat something often enough within a cultural space, and people will make eventually make assumptions - especially when it comes to music.

In Southern Appalachia, the pre-eminence ascribed to "Scots-Irish" cultural influence - especially as regards music - has been repeated so often that people have come to take it "as Gospel".

This “Scots-Irish equals Appalachia” nexus is simply untrue...

Read and hear more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2022/12/28/yes-virginia-there-is-an-american-culture/

#BeforeWeWereWhite #OldTimeMusic #ScotsIrish

During the 11th and 12th centuries, in an age before gunpowder, the Normans were able to conquer England by constructing forts (motte-and-bailey “castles”) on newly occupied land.

The exact same method – colonisation by fort-building – was employed in Southern Appalachia by land-hungry Americans in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War...

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2022/11/06/the-mechanics-of-colonialism/

#BeforeWeWereWhite #AmericanHistory #Appalachia #AmericanFrontier

During the 11th and 12th centuries, in an age before gunpowder, the Normans were able to conquer England by constructing forts (motte-and-bailey “castles”) on newly occupied land.

The exact same method – colonisation by fort-building – was employed in Southern Appalachia by land-hungry Americans in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War...

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2022/11/06/the-mechanics-of-colonialism/

#BeforeWeWereWhite #AmericanHistory #Appalachia #AmericanFrontier @histodons

1870 "Map of Predominating Sex", is 150-year-old social analytics.

The darker the shaded area, the greater the disparity between reported male and female population of a given area. In other words, in 1870, many self-described male Americans were:

1) Going without sex

2) Having sex with other men

3) Sharing women (including sex workers)

4) Taking partners from unenumerated population groups (i.e. slaves and indigenous women)

#BeforeWeWereWhite #history #maps #HistoryOfSex #AmericanFrontier