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Britain also spent a long time transporting violent criminals and resettling much of the relatively violent “Scotch-Irish”/“Borderer” population to the American
by philwelch 5y ago
Britain also spent a long time transporting violent criminals and resettling much of the relatively violent “Scotch-Irish”/“Borderer” population to the American colonies. We also got a lot of their religious fanatics. This explains a lot about America.
- rpmisms 5y agoThis is an excellent point that I don't hear often.
- wutbrodo 5y agoIf you're looking for ethnic explanations, the evidence deosnt match the claim that Borderers drive the American homicide rate to any real degree. While the White American murder rate is higher than Britain's, it's less than half that of the overall American murder rate, which is largely driven by the homicide rate amongst African Americans, which is 7x that of whites. Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/21/how-america-compares-to-the-world-when-split-by-race https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/21/how-amer... Britain at 1.2, white Americans at 2.2, African Americans at 15.5