Do historians accept Grady McWhiney's claim that the South was heavily influenced by Celtic culture, and that the US Civil War was partly born out of hostility between a Celtic South and an English North? This seems wrong to me given how Irish and Scottish immigrants impacted the northeast US

by Dinocrocodile
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I wrote about this not too long ago: https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k5e71z/was_there_a_major_ethnic_difference_between_the/

TL;DR: McWhiney's claims are baseless and were motivated by neo-confederate ideology.