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RE: Purdue fans view of tailgating at marshall...
i'm not surprised that Marshall fans stood out to out of town fans during tailgating. i've not experienced it but i do know that mountain folk are some of the most generous people you will come across. i know huntington is a city but it is still in appalachia.
living in mountains is a tough life. you have to grind for everything and it shapes a people. most often poor people. (generally again, not just marshall). growing up poor myself you learn to share rather than hoard. that person you're sharing with may be poorer than you and some day you could be on the end of needing something. it's the way they're raised.
so marshall fans generosity doesn't surprise me at all and they should be proud that someone actually took the time to write a letter about it.
now to the 'hard to get along with' side of their personalities.
read the book 'Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America' by Senator Jim Webb.
Kentucky (and my family) have a lot of Scots-Irish in their bloodlines so I found this book extremely interesting. It also filled in some anecdotal observations I made while in the Marine Corps of how many people I met from Appalachia.
below is a quoted Amazon review of the book. It'll explain some of Marshall fan's tendencies to want to scrap. (this is all my humble opinion)
Quote: 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.
Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audey Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
And it explores the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.
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Purdue fans view of tailgating at marshall...
