Most of the Scots who originally settled in Appalachia were from the lowlands on the English border, not the highlands. This is the same population that was use

Most of the Scots who originally settled in Appalachia were from the lowlands on the English border, not the highlands. This is the same population that was used to colonize Northern Ireland, and similarly, most of the Irish immigrants to Appalachia were from this population of resettled lowland Scots.