Thank you for the breakdown love your stuff usually. Yeah I've been reading about Gaelicdom in Scotlands history and it seems for awhile the Lowland scots thought of themselves as "anglo Saxons" and "north Britons" and wanted a brotherhood of Englishmen and lowland scots they saw themselves as part of the destiny of the British empire. this is racial pseudo science of course as everybody knows the white native populations of the isles are all more closely related than not.

I guess lowlanders even called highlanders "eerish or 'irish'" as a slur.