Term for Scottish emigrant descendants?

[macwilkin]

I believe the term you are looking for is "Redneck" which originated in the Scottish borders referring to Presbyterians and another would be "Cracker" derived from the Scots word "craik" meaning talk referring to a loud talker or braggart. Craik, by the way, has been hijacked by the Irish but is, in fact, a Lowland Scots word.

Again, though, "redneck" would not apply to a RC or Episcopalian Highlander.

BTW, David Fischer in Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America documents the first use of the word "redneck" to North Carolina in 1830, when an English traveller described the local folk of Ulster-Scots Presbyterian heritage as "Rednecks".

Todd