
Crackers (Entry 290.NA0302)
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The Origins of Testosterone Production in the Northeast
The Irish and Scots that are in the Appalachians are all... Appalachian, they would say. They're feisty. Whether you want to tie it to a particular hormone or not. The border Scots had a very... Clanish and violent social culture, and they imported that even without the testosterone argument. They imported that clanish and ultimately warlike culture directly to Appalachia. And you can read it in all of the colonial reports that the tide water and East Coast colonial authorities riding back to England are trying to describe why this very unruly group will not settle ... Are we just seeing colonial racism there?
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