It's strange

I think that's part of the issue. A lot of Southerners are Scots-Irish and I guess they think their Scottish names are Irish names

From the English plantation of Ulster, begun during the Tudor era. Ulster (northern Ireland,) was considered a pretty backwater area, so the English decided to pacify it by importing a lot of Scots to settle there.

A lot of those Scots later dipped and moved to the Carolinas, etc.

This is likely where the “irish southerner” thing came from- they had ancestors from Ireland, they just weren’t ethnically irish.

The “Cherokee blood” thing comes from family folk legend and owo Muh native blood woo.

You’ll notice it’s literally always Cherokee. No one ever claims to be Creek or Muskogee or anything.

The great irony is that the Scots invaded Caledonia during the collapse of Western Rome

Yeah my grandfather insists we're part Cherokee to this day even though me and my dad have both had DNA tests and both had 0% Native American DNA

@TylerHess yeah, Scottish Gaelic is actually descended from Middle Irish. The Picts were there before them.

I was quite disappointed to discover I was 0.4% Indian. Some dalliance in the 17th century. F-ing thot.

@Sherlock same, although “Sioux” because his father was from Missouri. I looked- surprise, he was from Coventry.

Lol

There doesn’t seem to be that family folk history thing in the north, for some reason.

You never meet someone from Massachusetts claiming to be “part Narragansett”

It's quite strange

Maybe our grandfathers just grew up lusting after hot Indian chicks in cowboy movies

idk

I wonder who produced those cowboy movies

maybe the Cherokee girls just like white guys...

Well Mexican ones definitely do, for whatever that's worth

I think it’s probably out of the deep seated desire everyone has to belong to a group of people. Since “white southerner” has become demonized, they go with the strange “Cherokee” angle.

Incidentally, my grandmother’s husband was actually a Cherokee (you can tell by looking at my half-aunts and uncles.) He uh. Got drunk and beat her a lot, so she remarried a white guy from Texas (my grandfather.)

Nice guy

You have my mom and her sister who look incredibly Caucasian, then I have an aunt who looks like she came from one of those velvet paintings with the moon and wolves and dream catchers etc.

The “drunk Indian” stereotype is apparently quite true, unfortunately.

I have some distant cousins who got with blacks, but otherwise my family is huwhite af

I think I remember reading that natives literally lack the enzyme that lets them break down alcohol.

Yes that's true

They have zero tolerance for it because they never had it until we came along

I guess without agriculture, you don’t really start fermenting anything.

Yeah they are one of the rare societies on Earth that never developed a beverage with alcohol

Alcoholism rates among Indians is extremely high

Has historically been a huge issue for them

Sad.

Indeed

As a South Dakotan I can confirm Natives can't hold their alcohol.

Had a buddy in high school that I used to drink with and despite him weighing 100+ more than me I could still drink him under the table. I'm German-scandinavian.

He was Dakota Sioux.

I watched Black Panther as a laugh. It was even more disgusting than I imagined.

I decided I'm not watching that anti-white bs.