Jacobite related

[Doug Millison]

from a review of
Celeste Ray. Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in
the American South. Chapel Hill and London: University
of North Carolina Press, 2001. xix + 256 pp.
Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
$16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4913-8

"[...] Ray finds that southern
Americans are particularly attuned to the "Highland
Heritage," with
its parallel themes of a lost cause, chivalry, heroes,
and a
recreation of a "Technicolor" past in which things
were "the way
they ought to be."  In embracing a Scottish antebellum
history, many
Americans can enjoy it, without the baggage of
slavery, Jim Crow or
Reconstruction, except as a connection to the
depredations suffered
by Scottish ancestors, oppression after the defeat at
Culloden, the
banning of the pipes and tartan, and exile to America.
 Stunningly,
Ray reported that many participants had not thought
there was any
possible racial connection to be drawn from the use of
the
traditional "fiery cross" lit at Highland games.[...]"

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4963999284383


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