Ken Steele wrote:
> Notice the one tiny bit of purple in NW North
> Carolina identifying itself as English. That 
> area is the home of the Grandfather Mountain 
> Highland Games, which a friend from Edinburgh
> identified as being more Scottish than Scotland. 

> Excuse me while I warm up my Lochaber Trump.

But don't bother with the tartan kilt!
"tartan and kilt, those universal badges of Scottishness, are about as
authentic as Disneyland":

http://www.nysun.com/arts/hugh-trevor-ropers-the-invention-of-scotland/8241
7/

Allen Esterson

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