The Displaced Scots Irish are also called The Children of the Mist as they have been purged and scattered so often. They were largely the fighters in the Revolutionary war— Quakers, Calvinists and German farmers were pacifist and wanted no parts of it.
They were still the majority of fighters in the civil war because they would not allow any hint of a boot on their necks.
And 60 years after that they were rounded up and disappeared by the government
They still wouldn’t die so they were bombarded with regs that made them stop farming, but they went into mining. They were hit with closing coal mines and assailed with opioids from their friendly government fedcoats.
If there is a demographic that tyrants can’t risk keeping around it’s hillbillies.