<P> An example of the use of the term is found in A History of Ulster: "Ulster Presbyterians--known as the' Scotch Irish'--were already accustomed to being on the move, and clearing and defending their land ." </P> <P> While Scotch - Irish is the term most used in scholarship to describe these people, use of the term has drawn ire from both Scots and Irish . To the Scots, the term Scotch is derogatory when referring to a person or people, and should be applied only to whisky . Many Irish have claimed that such a distinction should not be used, and that those called Scotch - Irish are simply Irish . Other Irish limit the term Irish to those of native Gaelic stock, and prefer to describe the Ulster Protestants as British (a description many Ulster Protestants have preferred themselves to Irish, at least since the Irish Free State broke free from the United Kingdom, although Ulstermen has been adopted in order to maintain a distinction from the native Irish Gaels while retaining a claim to the North of Ireland). However, as one scholar observed in 1944, "...in this country (USA), where they have been called Scotch - Irish for over two hundred years, it would be absurd to give them a name by which they are not known here...Here their name is Scotch - Irish; let us call them by it ." </P> <P> From 1710 to 1775, over 200,000 people emigrated from Ulster to the original thirteen American colonies . The largest numbers went to Pennsylvania . From that base some went south into Virginia, the Carolinas and across the South, with a large concentration in the Appalachian region . Others headed west to western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and the Midwest . </P> <P> Transatlantic flows were halted by the American Revolution, but resumed after 1783, with total of 100,000 arriving in America between 1783 and 1812 . By that point few were young servants and more were mature craftsmen, and they settled in industrial centers, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York, where many became skilled workers, foremen and entrepreneurs as the Industrial Revolution took off in the U.S. Another half million came to America 1815 to 1845; another 900,000 came in 1851 - 99 . That religion decisively shaped Scotch - Irish culture . </P>

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