Thread by @ScottMGreer

This is just ethnic cope. Ellis Islanders played a much greater role in turning America into an egalitarian “idea” than the old stock. 19th century America was not a liberal commune

https://twitter.com/fredneech/status/1403591040871944197

Tiny minority of Anglos that were hated even in New England. Do you think the South was populated entirely with Italians and Slavs?

https://twitter.com/FredNeech/status/1403725860579033089

Fitzhugh thought the Southern elites were "Normans," which they weren't. Fitzhugh also didn't represent mainstream antebellum opinion. Ulster Scots primarily came from the Scottish-English borderland and are considered old stock. They're not ethnics

https://twitter.com/FredNeech/status/1403733271452790784

Also southerners from Jefferson and Calhoun to anti-integrationists in the 50s and 60s called themselves "Anglo-Saxons." Here's George Wallace in 1963

If you read more and got over your ethnic resentment, you'd realize that Anglo Americans are more than just Yankee Puritans. The majority of Southerners identified as Anglo-Saxon, as seen in the rhetoric of their leaders from Jefferson onwards

https://twitter.com/FredNeech/status/1403735655633534978

It's also strange to blame all Anglos for random kooky movements while absolving Italians for comprising a significant part of the American anarchist and communist movements in the early 1900s.