>> Is your argument that West Virginia is "disorderly" or "culturally inferior" because of immigrants? Which groups, and from when? > Appalachia was settled b

>> Is your argument that West Virginia is "disorderly" or "culturally inferior" because of immigrants? Which groups, and from when? > Appalachia was settled by people from a culturally distinct region of northern Britain: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/four-folkways https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/four-folkways. Hundreds of years later, this group remains culturally and sociologically distinct from other British Americans. Albion’s Seed is not a reliable narrative as it concerns the region: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40933452 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40933452 (1992) In particular, “Borderers” are a myth Fischer concocted out of whole cloth by selectively ignoring inconvenient bits of his primary sources. The weird second life it got from the glowing Slate Star Codex review is yet another instance of Rationalists wrongly assuming competence outside their domain of expertise. Your naive adoption and regurgitation of American biases against Appalachians does not endear you to me, either.