What is Scottish Americans?
{{nosources|date=May 2024}} '''Scottish Americans''' are [[Americans|American citizens]] whose ancestry originated wholly or partly in [[Scotland]], a constituent [[country]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. The majority of [[Scottish people|Scots]] who immigrated to the [[USA]] were originally from Northern [[England]] and [[Lowland Scotland]] before migrating to the [[province]] of [[Ulster]] in [[Ireland]] ([[Ulster Scots people|Scots-Irish]]) and [[Colonization|colonists]]. Large immigration from Scotland to the [[United States|USA]] begin in the [[1700s]].{{cn}} The Ulster-Scots originally came from the [[Lowland Scots|Lowlands]] and the [[Scottish Borders|Scottish border]] before migrating to the province of Ulster, Ireland. From there, they would have emigrated in large numbers five generations later to [[North America]] during the eighteenth century.{{cn}} Today, most Americans of Scottish ancestry are concentrated in [[New England]] and the [[Southern United States|American South]], with [[Florida]], [[Ohio]], [[Washington]], [[Utah]], [[New York]] and [[Pennsylvania]] also having large Scottish populations.{{cn}} ==Uncle Sam== [[File:J. M. Flagg, I Want You for U.S. Army poster (1917).jpg|thumb|Uncle Sam]] Many people believe that [[Uncle Sam]], the national [[personification]] of the United States and its [https://simple.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/people people], was inspired by [[Samuel Wilson]], a meat packer from [[Troy, New York]], whose grandfather, Robert Wilson, was a Scottish immigrant from [[Greenock|Greenock, Scotland]] to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]].{{cn}} ==Notable Scottish Americans== * [[George W. Bush]] *[[Reese Witherspoon]] *[[Seth MacFarlane]] *[[Gregory Peck]] *[[Eminem]] *[[Justin Timberlake]] *[[John C. Reilly]] *[[Donald Trump]] *[[Mark Wahlberg]] *[[Jared Padalecki]] *[[Jensen Ackles]] *[[Matt Bomer]] *[[James Monroe]] *[[John Witherspoon]] *[[Ronald Reagan]] *[[Matt Damon]] *[[Taylor Swift]] *[[Neil Armstrong]] *[[Brad Pitt]] *[[George Clooney]] *[[Nicole Kidman]] *[[George Lincoln R