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  • @watchdealer11
    @watchdealer11 2 роки тому +280

    Thomas Sowell is a national treasure and cannot die!

    • @mynameisgladiator1933
      @mynameisgladiator1933 2 роки тому

      When you boil down Sowell's arguments, it basically blames white people for black problems. This shit happened 200 years ago and these intellectuals still blame whites for blacks deplorable performance. He doesn't even believe blacks are stupider than whites despite the scientific evidence supporting this statement.

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 2 роки тому +2

      Thomas Sowell is .... LOL LOL LOL

    • @thefluidist132
      @thefluidist132 2 роки тому

      We'll see. How many painters are out there that want to paint him? How many singers will sing songs?

    • @thefluidist132
      @thefluidist132 2 роки тому +1

      Don't get me wrong. He will leave behind significant ripples.

    • @Saber23
      @Saber23 2 роки тому +1

      Not really no

  • @miketracy9256
    @miketracy9256 2 роки тому +214

    Sure wish our public schools would teach these factual lessons from Thomas Sowell.

    • @inkmage4084
      @inkmage4084 2 роки тому

      They'd never, because it would end with left-wing ideology and the Democrat party being completely rejected.

    • @flowrepins6663
      @flowrepins6663 Рік тому

      they dont teach in schools they indoctrinate

    • @johncasey1020
      @johncasey1020 Рік тому +2

      This is too deep for most teenagers, and probably most University students, at least young ones.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 Рік тому

      There aren't any facts here. Blacks act the way they do because they learned it from "rednecks" who came from the Scottish Borders? That's a load of crap I find hard for anyone to swallow, but here you come with your spoon.

    • @audreyroche9490
      @audreyroche9490 Рік тому

      Watch Thomas this guy been racist and talking rubbish Thomas interviews are still around on u tube

  • @LAFLSU82
    @LAFLSU82 2 роки тому +364

    I'm a true hillbilly. I'm a West Virginian. My family has lived in this area since the late 1700's. I understand bigotry towards my family and friends. I have to say my family has always and continue to be hard working and honest fair people. We don't want to become the "new liberal americans." Thank you very much

    • @seeingimages
      @seeingimages 2 роки тому +59

      If you and your family embrace most of the norms of modern civilized society, then you are a liberal in the sense of that term as used by political scientists and economists. But if you instead refuse to follow the law and engage in multi-generational blood feuds, distilling moonshine, and refusing to pay taxes or recognize the federal (or even state) government, then you are a true "hillbilly" in the historical sense that Thomas Sowell is describing in this chapter of his book. Also, Sowell is NOT a "liberal" in any conventional, traditional, or typical sense of the word, as it is used by popular media personalities, such as Rush Limbaugh or those on Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network. As the word "liberal" is used by academics, by experts in "political science," however, anyone who believes in representative government, free and fair elections, lightly regulated trade, individual rights, the Bill of Rights, and universal suffrage IS a liberal. If you believe in these things, then you are a "liberal" in the sense outlined above, as the term is used broadly by political scientists (and economists).

    • @RodRock6133
      @RodRock6133 2 роки тому +10

      Honest question for you Lynn, is your family racist towards dark colored people?

    • @tomjeffries58
      @tomjeffries58 2 роки тому +30

      @@seeingimages People confuse liberal with the left. They're completely separate.

    • @patriciaritter4090
      @patriciaritter4090 2 роки тому

      @@tomjeffries58 This is correct, and it can be traced back to the early 1900's when progressives (yes, the very same s.o.b.'s of today) usurped the title, "liberal", for themselves from the very people who you've described here. The famous economist, F. A. Hayek, wrote about this in his book "The Road to Serfdom", in 1944.

    • @tomjeffries58
      @tomjeffries58 2 роки тому

      @@Jonathan-si2nd I agree but leftists are not liberal, leftists are Marxists and there's a big difference. Marxist first utterly destroy all norms and beliefs in culture and society and rebuild and it's always worse. It's happening right now, that's why nowadays day is night, up is down, forward is backward. They're tearing down our history as well (very important) and making up their own. They are creating a new reality and if they win and they very well could, you'd better believe their new, better, brighter, shinier reality or you'll be eliminated. Not very liberal, eh?

  • @patriciaritter4090
    @patriciaritter4090 2 роки тому +48

    My 52 yr. old son said to me the other day, we don't hear much from Thomas Sowell any more, do we? I replied back, Sam, the man's in his 90's, give him his due rest. I've been sending him these little gems since then. But I, selfishly, don't want him to have his due rest, either. We seem to need his wisdom and good sense more than ever now. Thank God this good man gave us what he did.

  • @anglomik
    @anglomik 2 роки тому +109

    Excellent short documentary; stuff today's universities either completely ignore or deny altogether.

    • @alldowntheline3146
      @alldowntheline3146 2 роки тому +4

      Not a documentary. Its a reading from his book Black Rednecks and white liberals. Like an audio book. If you haven't i recommend buying it.

  • @jdub6909
    @jdub6909 2 роки тому +136

    Thank you so much for making these videos. It's like sitting in college again.

    • @ThomasSowellTV
      @ThomasSowellTV  2 роки тому +14

      Amen.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 Рік тому

      Where did you go to school? Did you even have to take a test to get in there? It seems you may have paid for something worthless.

  • @lostindixie
    @lostindixie Рік тому +22

    As a northeasterner who moved to The South in middle-age, I totally agree. The most destructive thing is the attitude that life is a zero-sum game. If anyone else succeeds, it brings me down.

  • @LiogCeartas
    @LiogCeartas Рік тому +11

    Family Guy said it too 🤣"Aw the South! Isn't that the place where the black guys are lazy, and the white guys are just a lazy, but they're mad a the black guys for being so lazy" -peter griffin
    Yall black and white southern americans are the same to the rest of us!

  • @Lucien234-i2z
    @Lucien234-i2z 11 місяців тому +46

    😂😂 As someone from rural Scotland, redneck culture has not died out in Scotland and trust me our dialect is older and harder to understand than Southern Americans.

    • @rainbowodysseybyjonlion
      @rainbowodysseybyjonlion 7 місяців тому

      but are large portions of scottish making babies out of wedlock and claiming the govt owes them money from eventa hundreds of years ago ans fighting to not be educated?

    • @jaycolucci
      @jaycolucci 6 місяців тому +3

      I'd love to know this personally. It's funny how clearly we can see things in our own world no? :)

    • @misst.e.a.187
      @misst.e.a.187 5 місяців тому +2

      Neither has it done so in northern England and amongst certain types in the south.

    • @Filthyanimalyeh
      @Filthyanimalyeh Місяць тому

      I'm a Fife farmer and my neck is definitely red lol 😂

    • @Parker_Douglas
      @Parker_Douglas 7 днів тому

      @@misst.e.a.187the culture comes from the Scottish border not southern England.

  • @DarthQueefious
    @DarthQueefious 2 роки тому +191

    I live in England, and it kinda blew my mind when I realised that quite a bit of Ebonics comes from the West Country (erroneously labelled a "farmer's accent" due to TV shows)
    Given that the famous Pirate accent is a West Country accent (many of the real life Pirates came from there e.g. Blackbeard), it is, in a sense, "Talk like a Pirate day" every day for many black Americans

    • @thurmanmerman2720
      @thurmanmerman2720 2 роки тому +20

      In reality there was no such thing as a pirate accent. Pirates came from everywhere and anywhere. They could have had a Spanish, French, Irish, Welsh accent or anything else conceivable. The stereotypical pirate accent as that of a West Country Englishman is only due to Robert Newton choosing that accent for the 1950's Treasure Island movie.

    • @jpeg7750
      @jpeg7750 2 роки тому +2

      A lot of those pirates from west country mainly smuggled slaves and settled in the Carolinas and Virginia where they had plantations .... 📬 MESSAGE!!!!

    • @donquixotedoflamingo5510
      @donquixotedoflamingo5510 Рік тому +14

      @@thurmanmerman2720 True tho English pirates were heavily from West Country and closer regions, that's why movies with English language use it. also West Country is one of the least changed English accent still holding to the Rhothicity, back then every Englishman used Rs like Irish, scots and Americans.

    • @peterrichards931
      @peterrichards931 Рік тому

      Oh crap now we need to pay you royalties for using ebonics as well as plain old English

    • @moonknight4053
      @moonknight4053 Рік тому +1

      Ain’t the black accent like a mix of west country, east anglia, etc ?

  • @artawhirler
    @artawhirler 11 місяців тому +10

    Nobody knows this, but everybody should.

  • @jontalbot1
    @jontalbot1 Рік тому +10

    I am from East Anglia, the people who populated New England. But l also lived in the northern part of the country from where the southern whites are drawn.

  • @unnecessaryapostrophe4047
    @unnecessaryapostrophe4047 2 роки тому +76

    My mother's family was among those Appalachians who migrated to the industrial Midwest in the 50s. Within two generations, this changed a family with a history of being largely uncivilized -- unproductive, violent, and drunk hillbillies -- into one of educators and engineers. I am so grateful for the hard work and sacrifices that my grandfather made to facilitate this change. Even as a small child, it was disturbing to observe the differences between the family of my grandfather and the families of his siblings when they would visit Ohio from West Virginia.

  • @markinglese3874
    @markinglese3874 2 роки тому +11

    I am equally happy and heartbroken, that I have finally found this great Man.

  • @Publius-24
    @Publius-24 Рік тому +32

    "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
    Ayn Rand

    • @dexstewart2450
      @dexstewart2450 9 місяців тому

      She was a hypocrite and a fool: only in the USA is that clown admired

  • @8House
    @8House 2 роки тому +35

    I knew these white Appalachian southerners well in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago in my youth. Most of them I found to be tough, hardworking and very loyal if they liked you. The majority made good lives for themselves in Chicago and the midwest.

    • @Toria-dw6zc
      @Toria-dw6zc Рік тому +2

      Finally, a ray of light on this dark, dull & distorted portrait of these
      people.

  • @khfan4life365
    @khfan4life365 2 роки тому +21

    My grandparents are from rural Michigan. They didn’t have indoor plumbing and central heating. They relied on outhouses and fireplaces. When my dad and aunt were young, they all moved to California. Even though grandma and grandpa have been here for a long time now, they still have retained their midwest accents. They both come from a line of hardworking people and that has been passed down to my dad, his siblings, and us kids.

  • @alabamasmokeywilson6818
    @alabamasmokeywilson6818 2 роки тому +59

    Great video Sir. I guess this does apply to me. As I'm from Alabama and Also Irish and Scottish. I really enjoyed this. Thank you Sir.

    • @Saber23
      @Saber23 2 роки тому +4

      He literally just made derogatory remarks to you and people like you and you’re thanking him?

    • @alabamasmokeywilson6818
      @alabamasmokeywilson6818 2 роки тому +4

      @@Saber23 He just tells it like it is

    • @Saber23
      @Saber23 2 роки тому +4

      @@alabamasmokeywilson6818 lol he really doesn’t you think he “tells it like it is” while he’s leaving an innumerable number of nuances out of the equation as well as getting certain historical facts just blatantly wrong because what he’s saying agrees with your perspective and validates your own beliefs bruh

    • @alabamasmokeywilson6818
      @alabamasmokeywilson6818 2 роки тому +1

      @@johnedington6083 Thank you Sir

    • @tuforu4
      @tuforu4 2 роки тому

      Your a PADDY.

  • @luuhoang9917
    @luuhoang9917 2 роки тому +53

    This video invites me to order your book "Black Rednecks and white Liberals" right away...so interesting. Thank you, sir.

    • @foyjamez
      @foyjamez 2 роки тому +2

      I believe it is available free on audible if you want to listen to it

  • @USMC0352
    @USMC0352 Рік тому +6

    Thomas Sowel is a national treasure

  • @MrCosmos110
    @MrCosmos110 2 роки тому +20

    It's so wonderful to hear the truth, bolstered with facts, and I dearly love Mr. Sowell's term "THE ANOINTED" it fits perfectly.

  • @poppyandfizzy3875
    @poppyandfizzy3875 2 роки тому +29

    I live in England and there is still a lot of this culture. It didn’t die out at all here. Unfortunately.

    • @tepidbudgie
      @tepidbudgie 2 роки тому +6

      Please revoke your biases toward folk born under poverty and unfortunate circumstances, after all you can't choose where and when your born. I am amongst these folk and all I have met and know are good hard working people. Some may stray from the path but sometimes it's not always as cut and dry as you may think. Please turn your nose down and reflect on the ignorance of your comment, you certainly don't know what it's like to live that way so it's not something you could possibly understand or judge upon.

    • @johnnyjohn-johnson7738
      @johnnyjohn-johnson7738 2 роки тому

      Do they still duel each other over there? or bite out each others ears and gouge out each others eyes? I'm curious.

    • @SheonEver
      @SheonEver Рік тому +1

      @@tepidbudgie Aren't you, then, talking about different groups of people..? Poor people and degenerates are not one and the same, after all.

    • @Stephen-lx9nm
      @Stephen-lx9nm Рік тому

      Your not even English your probably a Muslim or a middle class Taquin😂

    • @thevibrantlotusstudiollc8227
      @thevibrantlotusstudiollc8227 Рік тому +3

      ​@@johnnyjohn-johnson7738 I am from Arkansas and we may not duel with swords anymore; however, if you visit the northern part of Arkansas then you will almost certainly see a fist fight (if not many). Lol

  • @afwalker1921
    @afwalker1921 5 місяців тому +3

    At 7:43, "And Vermin abounded" would make a great name for an historical investigation of this culture. I would never stop laughing...

  • @trplankowner3323
    @trplankowner3323 2 роки тому +75

    Thank you Dr. Sowell for this mini-documentary. The way that the English changed Scotland was to make them partners in prosperity through the Acts of Union 1707. The Ulster Scots (and other so called "rednecks") in the Southern US did not achieve this status until the mid-twentieth century mostly due to the institution of slavery. There was virtually no middle class in the antebellum South. While the rich plantation owners held their slaves in low esteem, at least the slave had value to them. The "poor white trash" did not. In fact part of the motivation for the widespread use of slavery was in order to keep the "white trash" from increasing in numbers and opposing the rich white landowners politically. Until the 1920s, elections in the South were held in public places and these poor whites had their votes cast and tallied on chalkboards in front of their landlords and employers. Who made note of anyone not voting as they were "supposed to". The growth of a middle class in the South paralleled the decline in racism there. Today most middle class Southerners in the suburban and rural South hold no prejudice towards their neighbors over skin color or other factors often used to divide the common people, for in fact they all have much more in common with their neighbors and work mates than they do with those people of the elites that attempt to spread bigotry among them for political gain. Still more infuriating to these "upper class" is that said middle class are fully aware of those facts.

    • @trplankowner3323
      @trplankowner3323 2 роки тому

      @@conormorgan6280 Well if "join the elite" were Dr. Sowell's goal, he would certainly be going about it in the least likely way to reach that end. For an example of how to more successfully obtain that goal I think Dr. Sowell could do no better than emulating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. However, despite all I have achieved in my life, I lack the unmitigated self-delusion to even attempt to contradict Dr. Sowell. As for myself, I'd rather disembowel myself than lick George Soros' boot. Honestly though, neither is likely to happen.

    • @bethyngalw
      @bethyngalw 2 роки тому +20

      I think that's the key matter that isn't being touched on properly in this video; class. "Rednecks" never disappeared from Britain, the name for them just changed over time. Nowadays we call them 'chavs'. Britain was always a place where class mattered, and the upper and middle class looked down on the working class as uncouth and having poor morals and cleanliness. If you were rural poor, there could be some sense of admiration between classes, as you were integral to your 'lord's' wealth. But the poor in cities were always slum kids with no manners as far as everybody else was concerned. We see the same pattern through every part of English history that I can think of. It's not surprising that it transplanted to America. Like most everything else, class plays a way bigger part than most people seem to be aware of. They spend all their time looking at race, and they miss the glaringly obvious in front of their faces. That's why the ruling powers constantly stoke the fire of racism, because they know that the moment people forget race they will recognise the real problem and turn on their 'masters'.

    • @sunkencubeoctahedron7844
      @sunkencubeoctahedron7844 Рік тому +1

      Well said!

    • @trplankowner3323
      @trplankowner3323 Рік тому +1

      @@sunkencubeoctahedron7844 Thank you my friend. Please spread the truth!

    • @TheDustysix
      @TheDustysix Рік тому +1

      USMC DV Too! To The Naval Service.

  • @jason5265
    @jason5265 2 роки тому +12

    This is fascinating. I’ve never heard of this before

  • @bobfeller604
    @bobfeller604 2 роки тому +24

    I'd like to see a school district and a curriculum designed by Dr. Sowell. I'm sure it would be excellent.

    • @damarideadass8305
      @damarideadass8305 Рік тому

      He was given the chance to do so and backed out like a coward.

  • @oneshot-1381
    @oneshot-1381 Рік тому +14

    Redneck originated in the UK.

    • @misst.e.a.187
      @misst.e.a.187 5 місяців тому +4

      Lawlessness and Godlessness

  • @bobsmoot8454
    @bobsmoot8454 2 роки тому +22

    Dr. Sowell, the breadth of your knowledge is truly astounding. In addition, your ability to communicate this to your audience in a fashion that allows many to benefit is greatly appreciated. I’d dare say, besides reading a passage from the Bible everyday, it should be accompanied by one of your videos and a article or video of Milton Friedman to ensure one’s self is maintaining their education.

  • @bobpowers9637
    @bobpowers9637 2 роки тому +11

    Keep this channel going no matter what…

  • @johnmcclain3887
    @johnmcclain3887 2 роки тому +17

    Thank you, for a clear and rational explanation. I'm scots-irish, ancestry from West Virginia, and my own family broke that tradition, moving north. This couples well with your explanation of the settling of Great Britain, also very well done.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 Рік тому +1

      Okay, in five sentences or more, what did you learn about the settling of Great Britain and how that relates to you?

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 10 днів тому

      I’m also Scots Irish but not from the US south my family lived in New York State and then moved to California

  • @Parker_Douglas
    @Parker_Douglas 7 днів тому

    Am Scottish & the USA is where I have most of my DNA matches with 6,599 , guessing it’s mainly due to the Highland & Lowland clearances that took place in Scotland . My town Airdrie was cleared out but it’s a thriving place now with our population growing steadily year upon year.

  • @shovelspade480
    @shovelspade480 2 роки тому +35

    This culture is actually very much still alive in britain.

    • @RodRock6133
      @RodRock6133 2 роки тому +3

      can you extend on this? thank you

    • @shovelspade480
      @shovelspade480 2 роки тому +23

      @@RodRock6133 all over britain there are countless communities which speak with very different dialects. Very difficult for people from different areas to understand each other. We have a very prominent class divide and a Robin hood mentality which upholds this rich poor divide. Not called Rednecks and hillbillies but chaves, rudeboys, rudegirls, gypos, all kinds of people that act and behave in opposition to cultural and personal development. Lots of drugs and sex and petty theft, often developing alongside certain types of music and dress style. Delinquency is often encouraged as a sign of rebellion against the posh, well off folk.

    • @shovelspade480
      @shovelspade480 2 роки тому +4

      @@RodRock6133 look into regional dialects and the vast range of language and culture within britain may be really interesting to you. 😁

    • @AnotherDebtSlave
      @AnotherDebtSlave 2 роки тому

      It has also evolved and diversified in the Antipodean nations.

    • @caioalmeida4139
      @caioalmeida4139 2 роки тому +4

      I Think the main reason for this difference is because the germanic angles and saxans colonised mainly the east parts of britain, mean while the original celtics/britons moved to Eats creating a very conturbated region

  • @donaldfeger91
    @donaldfeger91 2 роки тому +11

    Fascinating and enlightening at the same time!

  • @danjsy
    @danjsy Рік тому +4

    I knew it, Northerners !

  • @Cardan011
    @Cardan011 2 роки тому +7

    This is amazing, as history buff when I hear this it just clicks like Eureka moment. Insight is profound.

  • @cormackerr3018
    @cormackerr3018 2 роки тому +16

    Now I understand the roots of my family dysfunction.

  • @msbecks7004
    @msbecks7004 2 роки тому +21

    It’s still in the UK

    • @mishham6388
      @mishham6388 10 місяців тому

      Poor bloke lol I was lucky enough to have Irish heritage and the pommy bastards sent my family to Australia and thank u very much ! Britain is a shit hole compared to the great land down under !

    • @s.r8665
      @s.r8665 9 місяців тому +4

      Some of the speakers in the northern Irish protestant group speak in a similar style to African-American speakers.

    • @Parker_Douglas
      @Parker_Douglas 7 днів тому

      @s.r8665northern Irish use many Scot’s words

  • @nightofthe
    @nightofthe Рік тому +4

    I am the only white person who enrolled in African American studies at San Diego State in 1998. The first assignment the professor issued was; what is it like to be a black person in America today. He basically told me and the other non-black Mexican-American student that he didn't care what we wrote. I was very dissapointed because I learned that black people are perpetuating institutional racism and there is no one to challenge their bigotted beliefs, because of their minority status. The first ship carrying slaves arrived at Jamestown in 1619. The Mayflower arrived in 1620.

    • @GeorgeKilla
      @GeorgeKilla Рік тому

      Of course there is institutional racism until today most companies hiring rate is about 80% Caucasian or white and 20% is a combination of diversity hires 😅😅😅 , in the 60s 70s 80, 90, most unions only employed whites or European descent Americans to build a strong white middle class as we see today, blacks weren't allowed or were always not accepted for a mortgage, but whites were because they had job security due to being first choice lol

    • @judith4505
      @judith4505 Рік тому

      Your uneducated professors taught you wrong. Research the first ship, Jesus of Lubeck, early 1560's. Education is a waste of time if not taught properly. Registered in the library of congress. Thank God I did not have an American education.

  • @danuall5816
    @danuall5816 Рік тому +11

    This mentality still persists in Britain, the points Sowell makes about lowering educational standards, the welfare state and the breakdown of the family unit in the US seem so relevant, I fell into the peer pressure of thinking that rude boys coming mostly from broken homes were the ones to follow and anyone trying to educate and improve themselves wasn't cool or trendy and they were the bods, nerds or squares. Urban music culture was also very influential for me and largely played a very negative role now i look back.

    • @CharlesM-ml6zx
      @CharlesM-ml6zx Рік тому

      Young men and women alike look for the dominating culture in their society.
      This is why almost all mixed race people have a white mother (traitor) and a black father (invader)
      Women are preprogrammed to lie down for the invading forces. Men are made for war. Women for the winners. Goodnight.

    • @oscaralegre3683
      @oscaralegre3683 9 місяців тому

      thanks nerd

    • @danuall5816
      @danuall5816 8 місяців тому

      @@oscaralegre3683 No worries Troll

  • @YzKnox
    @YzKnox Рік тому

    as a northern chinese (manchu from manchuria)live in east tn , when he said the word "disorder" I realized why I enjoy this region so much and love the people here .

  • @TheDustysix
    @TheDustysix Рік тому

    All Corporal's of Marines are brilliant. Semper Fi.

  • @elsenored562
    @elsenored562 Рік тому +4

    Redneck culture died out in England (where it came from). It largely has died out in the American South (where it migrated to), but it still exists! (1:41 to 1:57)

    • @audreyroche9490
      @audreyroche9490 Рік тому

      There still causing problems ij northern Ireland

  • @bluestormcloud791
    @bluestormcloud791 2 роки тому +17

    Traditions die slowly. There are today, descendants of confederate soldiers who fled to Brazil after loosing the civil war. It is common for them to commemorate their heritage by having get togethers and dressing as their ancestors did in the 1800s.

  • @DickWalz
    @DickWalz 2 роки тому +14

    My Grandma (lived in Oklahoma) used to say batchtrees instead of batteries. Took me forever as a kid to figure out that was an English pronunciation and not southern.

    • @KnowWhatImSaying-l1s
      @KnowWhatImSaying-l1s 2 роки тому +3

      Facts , my grandpa from east Texas he said it the same way lol

    • @akil2746
      @akil2746 Рік тому +2

      In the Caribbean we say Batchtrees

  • @Munce72
    @Munce72 2 роки тому +3

    Great work Dr. Sowell!

  • @maxbarker356
    @maxbarker356 2 роки тому +3

    Great video. Well done curating all the visual art to enhance TS’s contents

  • @nicholas2827
    @nicholas2827 2 роки тому +20

    Never be offended by the person stating facts, be offended by the facts.

    • @swampgumpharpy7977
      @swampgumpharpy7977 2 роки тому

      😂

    • @Toria-dw6zc
      @Toria-dw6zc Рік тому +1

      What if they're not cut & dried facts? Where's the context? More
      FACTS are required.

  • @sunkencubeoctahedron7844
    @sunkencubeoctahedron7844 Рік тому +2

    Dr. Sowell, to understand all of this, it's important to understand the truth behind the so called "Irish potato famine", which had nothing to do with potatoes.

  • @bigdogbrown8106
    @bigdogbrown8106 2 роки тому +5

    Great video Thomas!

  • @slimpickens8211
    @slimpickens8211 2 роки тому +13

    Thank you for your historical venture into this. Although I find myself guilty of many of the described traits, I also find it refreshing that it is at least acknowledged as a culture with separate ideas, art forms, and religious beliefs from others. We are as you described a somewhat combative people, lol.

  • @YoungGirlz8463
    @YoungGirlz8463 2 роки тому +10

    Cities ain't it G. It's the farm life for me!

  • @chrissymodo
    @chrissymodo 5 місяців тому +2

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @michaelcanty4940
    @michaelcanty4940 Рік тому +3

    De Toqueville contrasted the people north and south of the Ohio in his travels. He described the natives of Kentucky as " the scum of England and Ireland".

  • @khfan4life365
    @khfan4life365 3 місяці тому

    Thomas Sowell is right about the dialect changes. I listened to a video of how people spoke English during Elizabeth I’s reign and it sounded a lot like the Southern accent in modern America. The resemblance was uncanny.

  • @orangemanonsteroids8569
    @orangemanonsteroids8569 Рік тому +1

    I was in England 35 years ago they always thought I was lying about being and American. Many thought I was a Jordy. What ever that is.

    • @warrenbridges1891
      @warrenbridges1891 Рік тому +2

      Orangeman on steroids Jordy = Scottish. Actually Geordie.

    • @The_Hasty_Ent
      @The_Hasty_Ent Рік тому +3

      Geordie is from the region around Newcastle upon Tyne

    • @warrenbridges1891
      @warrenbridges1891 Рік тому

      @@The_Hasty_Ent Thanks. Is that where the term originated, or is it specifically used for that region alone even today?

  • @damianhoratiu2287
    @damianhoratiu2287 2 роки тому +4

    Professor Sowell should be professor ad perpetuitas at Harvard.

  • @donaldwhittaker7987
    @donaldwhittaker7987 8 місяців тому

    Very interesting. Thanks

  • @mabbrey
    @mabbrey 2 роки тому +2

    great channel

  • @vikchoban
    @vikchoban Рік тому

    Wow , so interesting!

  • @marcuslatrent528
    @marcuslatrent528 Рік тому

    Im a West Virginian. Im a bit of an anomaly, because I left my home to better myself and am on my way to becoming the 1%

  • @CJ-hz1uj
    @CJ-hz1uj Рік тому +1

    Remember this in Detroit. Being from the South noticed that it was more bigotry against the South than against Blacks. Blacks more recently from the South were more discriminated against than Northern (for lack of a better term) Blacks.

  • @Barbassoblues
    @Barbassoblues 2 роки тому +2

    I believe it didn't die out in Britain.

  • @paullangin4499
    @paullangin4499 Рік тому +2

    The people on the Scots English border were known as Reivers, constantly raiding each other.

  • @HarryFlashmanVC
    @HarryFlashmanVC Рік тому +1

    That culture is still alive in Britain but it has changed

  • @IosuamacaMhadaidh
    @IosuamacaMhadaidh Рік тому +1

    Is mise Albannach-Èireannach, Yorkshire Brit, Cuimris is Còrnais, agus dh’èist mi ri Sowell a’ tàir air mo shinnsearan airson 11.5 mionaidean 😂
    Gu h-iongantach, chan eil mi eadhon troimh-chèile, agus gu dearbh fhathast gu math pròiseil😊
    (I'm essentially Scots-Irish, Yorkshire Brit, Welsh and Cornish, and I just listened to Sowell insult my ancestors for 11.5 minutes 😂
    Strange, I'm not even offended, and actually still quite proud😊 )

  • @lotsa_potsa
    @lotsa_potsa 2 роки тому +3

    Good Stuff🤟🏼

  • @kell7195
    @kell7195 2 місяці тому

    Australia was also populated by Scotch/Irish ethnically cleansed from their homelands during the Highland Clearance's and Irish famine.

  • @ko0974
    @ko0974 2 роки тому +5

    Scots/scotch Irish were Scottish or Northern English settlers sent to North of Ireland during the plantation of Ulster, Protestant's given the bones and land of the Catholic Irish ,whom they evicted ..and lots of other stuff..from the past ...only bringing this up as the Irish were the natives and completely different..just it seems alo of people from the state perceive themselves to be Irish from that period when hear the term Scots/ Irish.

  • @ivandinsmore6217
    @ivandinsmore6217 10 місяців тому +1

    This explains the northern Ireland loyalists too.

  • @mikea479
    @mikea479 2 роки тому +9

    I wonder if there’s room in this lesson to introduce the dignity culture v. honor culture conversation. The lawless, dangerous societies described seem to suggest honor culture.

  • @TheUnhousedWanderer
    @TheUnhousedWanderer Рік тому

    My ancestors were actually quite influential in southern Scotland. Many Scots and Irish emigrated to a town my ancestor founded in Canada. However, other people from my bloodline did settle in the South in previous generations...

  • @richardjohnston3359
    @richardjohnston3359 Рік тому +5

    Hatfield's v Mc'coys is basically the people of English decent fighting people of Scottish decent but calling them self American

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 Рік тому +1

      Yep!
      *Border reivers* (During the time of Stuart Scotland and Tudor England that
      occured at about the same time as the Enclosure Acts and Enclosure riots.
      *Enclosure Acts, England*
      (1500's to 1600's)
      *Lowland Clearances*
      (1760-1830)
      *Highland Clearances*
      (1750 - 1860 - mostly)
      *Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act*
      (1886)
      *The Great Famine* ,
      It affected all of Europe, Ireland and Belgium were especially hard hit.
      (1840's -- 1850's)

    • @tara382
      @tara382 Рік тому +3

      The reason they were fighting had nothing to do with ancestral heritage.

  • @dp-sr1fd
    @dp-sr1fd 2 роки тому +2

    The warring factions on the English/ Scottish border were known as the Border Reivers. It is believed this is where the word "bereaved" comes from. To have something forcibly taken from you.

  • @ellebelle4094
    @ellebelle4094 2 роки тому +7

    The mortality rate of Blacks after the civil war was lower than after emancipation. There was much debate about the wisdom of just freeing slaves or of putting them on a mandatory integration program. We do the integration things with people applying to become citizens. It's a must. There were those who did work to acculturate the ex-slave and any black from the south. With 4,000,000 ex-slaves, the effort was monumental and not done completely. The autobiography of Fredrick Douglass gives some insight into the issue.

    • @GuyFromTheSouth
      @GuyFromTheSouth 28 днів тому

      I think integration has lead to less united communities. On paper it does seem like the moral thing to do but in practice it has many drawbacks.

  • @hud86
    @hud86 2 роки тому

    It's history lessons that agree with my current cultural observations. Who would have thought logic and wisdom could be so accurate

  • @teddybass4450
    @teddybass4450 2 роки тому +6

    Another 200 years and Scotland will catch up

  • @jimd8008
    @jimd8008 2 роки тому

    Thank you again for your expectations

  • @elsenored562
    @elsenored562 Рік тому

    1:26 "... a common subculture that goes back for centuries, which has encompassed everything from ways of talking to attitudes toward education, violence, and sex and which originated not in the South but in those parts of the British Isles from which white Southerners came."

  • @billybrant6818
    @billybrant6818 2 роки тому +5

    Congrats on the recent viral video about Joe Rogan! Please make more of those types of videos, put famous people in the thumbnails and titles, its the best way to get publicity and reach a larger audience for Thomas Sowells work! Good luck

  • @petermgruhn
    @petermgruhn 2 роки тому +1

    I just watched this a couple days ago.

  • @Valhalla88888
    @Valhalla88888 Рік тому

    I understand that 60% of the signatures on the US declaration of independence from Great Britain 🇬🇧 were mostly from Scottish ancestry such as Witherspoon who built Princeton university on Scottish philosophy and Alexander Hamilton who developed the Federal Reserve Bank ❤

  • @pchurchill
    @pchurchill Рік тому +1

    I believe that many areas of scotland do still have a reputation for drink and violence !

  • @Impericalevidence
    @Impericalevidence Рік тому

    "where'd you get this, son!?!"
    "I got it from you, dad!!!"

  • @robingreer8098
    @robingreer8098 2 роки тому +6

    Excellent upsum, but one small error, Ulster is a province, containing 9 counties.

    • @callummiller5886
      @callummiller5886 2 роки тому

      I cringed every time he said ‘Ulster County’

  • @stephenlavin7512
    @stephenlavin7512 Рік тому +2

    Ulster is a province not a county, 6 Counties in the North and 3 in the Republic of Ireland, 9 Counties in total.

  • @shylal4896
    @shylal4896 Рік тому +3

    I was walking around a Wal-Mart 8hours south of where i live in the U.S. and all i could think of was Thomas Sowell. My daughter asks, "why does everyone act like they live in a trailer park?"

    • @HNUNN-ip4dt
      @HNUNN-ip4dt Рік тому +3

      Actually your comment reveals your condescending mentality toward the " lower classes " . Just because some people live in trailer parks is not an accurate indication of the intelligence or quality as people .

    • @oscaralegre3683
      @oscaralegre3683 9 місяців тому

      @@HNUNN-ip4dt you got a point but the first comment also have a point

  • @tonymurray814
    @tonymurray814 2 роки тому +4

    This narrative fits in perfectly with the present days Scots Irish in the north of Ireland( I’m from Ireland). Their ancestors in their homeland have moved on and up but these people have hung on to their antiquated traditions. Ergo their reluctance to join the rest of us in the modern world and integrate in civilized and not bigoted society.

    • @clayh8098
      @clayh8098 2 роки тому +3

      Viewing us as uncivilized, bigoted, antiquated, and other pejoratives is just all the more reason for us to stay separate. We stay close to God and our kin, maybe you should visit before judging

    • @Stephen-lx9nm
      @Stephen-lx9nm Рік тому

      Is he talking about the catholics😂

  • @TheRedRaven_
    @TheRedRaven_ 2 роки тому +16

    All this "black" education and justification, but where is the history on the Italians, Polish, Irish, etc? I had this BS shoved down my throat in high school as a first generation immigrant, tired of hearing it and pandering to the other side which will never accept our acceptance of actual history/facts.

  • @malachi-
    @malachi- Рік тому +2

    "Come and see the violence inherit in the system.. help, help, I'm being repressed."
    "Monty Python - Constitutional Peasants Scene (HD)"
    Takes on a whole new context.

  • @kevinwhelan9607
    @kevinwhelan9607 Рік тому +1

    I hate to correct the great man, but Ulster isn't a "county"; it's a province comprising six counties🎉

    • @jleacock
      @jleacock 8 місяців тому

      Correct …

  • @seanmcnamara1267
    @seanmcnamara1267 2 роки тому +1

    Read Nurtured With Love ,it’s all about class!

  • @tonymurray814
    @tonymurray814 2 роки тому +2

    This gentleman’s genius was/is vastly underrated. Explains Trumpism to a tee!!!

    • @bradc6199
      @bradc6199 Рік тому

      Deep and thorough ignorance describes Leftholes to a tee.

  • @dorisjordan1959
    @dorisjordan1959 Рік тому +1

    Painting with too broad a brush and ignores the millions who have worked extremely hard to improve their lives.

  • @druhilldruhill525
    @druhilldruhill525 2 роки тому +14

    The black ghettos always exist mostly in Democrat cities. When Lincoln freed the slaves from their Democrat slaveowners, most of those freed slaves still shacked up with their ex owners, and worked for small salaries. They had grown comfortable on those plantations, and feared if they left, they might get lynched. This gave birth to what is commonly referred to today, as 'The Democrat Plantation'. It is a force of nature, or what is commonly referred to as 'nature of the beast'. Even when you try to desegregate and integrate, you will find that most people naturally segregate.

  • @truthseeker1536
    @truthseeker1536 6 місяців тому

    You could simply quote Thomas Sowell to unravel any argument.

  • @dijonperry8286
    @dijonperry8286 2 роки тому +7

    So even when it’s negative black culture, it’s whitey’s fault. Can we also take credit for soul, hip hop and r&b music?

    • @aps-c1766
      @aps-c1766 2 роки тому +2

      I guess. Those type music evolve from black jazz in new york and mix with old disco

    • @dontaejohnson4382
      @dontaejohnson4382 2 роки тому

      Lmao only if you show me a the white man that started rap/hip hop the crazy thing is blacks started alot of different languages over the decades foe whites not to understand

    • @Stephen-lx9nm
      @Stephen-lx9nm Рік тому

      I hope not 😂

    • @gabbar51ngh
      @gabbar51ngh Рік тому +1

      Blacks couldn't come up with all that in Africa. They did it in USA so partly true.

  • @freedom_aint_free
    @freedom_aint_free 2 роки тому +1

    The description of the "redneck culture" reminds me of the Berbers from Morocco ;-)

    • @Piqueblinders11
      @Piqueblinders11 10 місяців тому

      West Country natives and berbers are common enemy

  • @speakupriseup4549
    @speakupriseup4549 2 роки тому +11

    Australia was populated with the same people from all across England, Scotland and Ireland, just as in the American south, yet we are not a nation of idle, drunken, illiterate, hicks.
    I'm not convinced that their cultural origins dictated their lifestyles in America, Australia was built by those very same cultures who were industrious, motivated and productive. Could it be plausible that their unmotivated idleness was brought about as a consequence of their southern slave culture which freed white people from the burden of performing manual labour or tasks they perceived as below them?
    A similar aloof, idle lifestyle is also found in aristocratic and elite societies.

    • @calebwarnock5866
      @calebwarnock5866 2 роки тому +2

      I don't think the poor whites were gaining anything from the labor of slaves. I'm sure they still had to produce their own clothes and food just like the Aussies or they would have to do without.

    • @AnotherDebtSlave
      @AnotherDebtSlave 2 роки тому

      Met your local Eshay yet?
      .. Also if you were living in Australia more than 100 years ago and didn't build a work ethic, the country would kill you. We now have welfare to erode that noble characteristic.

    • @caioalmeida4139
      @caioalmeida4139 2 роки тому +7

      wrong, South British colonies in America was colonised mainly during 17 and 18 century for people from Uster, North England and others periferic regions of Britain, and Australia was colonised during the 19 and 20 century, when the culture of these region was already anglicized and industrialized.

    • @johnnyjohn-johnson7738
      @johnnyjohn-johnson7738 2 роки тому +2

      The average southerner had to do manual labor because most people were too poor to own slaves, so the culture from Britain was probably the main reason, Australia is not like that because our culture became modernized during the final stages of the British Empire which brought over a more civilized working and middle class batch of settlers as recent as the 20th century (the early Liberal party were advocates of British Imperialism for population growth), also we have influences from migrants from other parts of Europe as well as Asia after the end of the White Australia Policy, Australia is more comparable to California than the South even if we do have some people who think and act like southerners (I've personally met some, even one old man who had a rhotic west country accent, but they're pretty rare).

    • @audreyroche9490
      @audreyroche9490 Рік тому

      Hunny there like English travellers gypsy they moved ti Scotland and cause a divide there and moved ti Ireland caused a divide there Australia had all sorts of people move there very sad stories orphans people from prison and children from world war who most were sexually abused and raped its not the same as Americana Hunny Americana is a mixed race country threw invasions

  • @SergioLopez-zc5bv
    @SergioLopez-zc5bv Рік тому

    These were called the UNDESIRABLES and shipped to the East of America, while Spain occupied the West. It also explains why that region still acts that way.

  • @beforeyourimmigrants8471
    @beforeyourimmigrants8471 2 роки тому +1

    The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was saying this back in the '80s.

    • @Piqueblinders11
      @Piqueblinders11 10 місяців тому +1

      Not honourable at all. said nothing about Muslims comitting genocide in West Papua

    • @beforeyourimmigrants8471
      @beforeyourimmigrants8471 10 місяців тому

      @@Piqueblinders11there's all kinds of drama that goes on he doesn't speak on. I do remember the honorable Minister Farrakhan speaking extensively on this very topic.