You think American southerners know how to nurse a grudge? That's nothing compared to bitterness over unpleasant events in the British Isles that occurred more than a century before the American Civil War ever began.
The English, naturally, were the villains. It's far too complicated to get into here, but when it all washed out, stories of various kilted rebels, who may or may not have been played by Liam Neeson in feature films, are told in songs like never before. They echo from glen to glen and down to the record store, all the way to the bank.
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