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Do historians accept Grady McWhiney's claim that the South was heavily influenced by Celtic culture, and that the US Civil War was partly born out of hostility between a Celtic South and an English North? This seems wrong to me given how Irish and Scottish immigrants impacted the northeast US

by /u/Dinocrocodile in /r/AskHistorians

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