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Personal blog of Mark Thompson. Formerly Managing Director of GCAS Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland (from 1999 - 2006) and Chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency (from June 2005 - June 2009). Thoughts on Ulster-Scots heritage, identity, evangelical Protestant faith, music and other stuff I stumble upon.

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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Appalachia - The Big White Ghetto: "...the last redoubt of the Scots-Irish working class that picked up where African slave labor left off..."

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