re: What parts of Louisiana have large amounts of people with Irish heritage?

Yeah, Irish dug the New Basin Canal.

Saying because slaves were too expensive is sort of right, they weren't numerous enough would have been the actual reason. Since there were no 'new slaves' at that point.

The Irish Channel is just an area of New Orleans where the Irish immigrants settled.

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The Irish died digging New Basin Canal which is now filled in as the giant neutral ground bn west end and ponchartrain blvd

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And where I-10 runs.

North

Found this list on Wiki and there are more Irish by percentage in Shreveport than the other big cities in LA.

Large cities with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry
Boston, Massachusetts 21.5%[1]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 16.2%
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14.2%[2]
Louisville, Kentucky 13.2%
Buffalo, New York 11.23%
Nashville, Tennessee 9.8%
Kansas City, Missouri 9.66%
Raleigh, North Carolina 9.5%
Cleveland, Ohio 9.43%
Saint Paul, Minnesota - 9.4%
Baltimore, Maryland 0.39%
Cincinnati, Ohio 9.05%
Austin, Texas 8.5%
Charlotte, North Carolina 8.4%
Chicago, Illinois 8%
Memphis, Tennessee 7%
New Orleans, Louisiana 6.8%
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Medium-size cities
Weymouth, Massachusetts - 45.5%
Quincy, Massachusetts 33.5%
Scranton, Pennsylvania - 30.3%
Albany, New York - 18.1%
Fayetteville, Arkansas - 15.21%
Charleston, South Carolina - 14%
Savannah, Georgia - 13.8%
Knoxville, Tennessee - 13.5%
Erie, Pennsylvania - 12.4%
Omaha, Nebraska - 11.9%
Syracuse, New York - 12.4%
Columbia, South Carolina - 10.1%
Huntsville, Alabama - 10.2%
Little Rock, Arkansas - 9.6%
Lowell, Massachusetts - 9.4%
Mobile, Alabama - 8.7%
Shreveport, Louisiana - 7%
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 6.4%

Smaller cities and towns
Scituate, Massachusetts - 61.5%
Holly Bluff, Mississippi - 58.33%
Almond, North Carolina - 50%
Salem, Alabama - 47.3%
Braintree, Massachusetts - 46.8%
Marshfield, Massachusetts - 46.7%
Belmont, Louisiana - 45.56%
Pearl River, New York - 45.75%
Milton, Massachusetts - 44.7%
Hull, Massachusetts - 44%
Walpole, Massachusetts -43.0%
Duxbury, Massachusetts - 41.4%
Vaucluse, South Carolina - 40.62%
Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania - 39.2%
Gloucester City, New Jersey - 38.8%
Fackler, Alabama - 38.16%
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania - 37.9%
Cleary, Mississippi - 32.3%
Iron City, Tennessee - 31.3%
Oak Lawn, Illinois - 30.4%
Waldwick, New Jersey - 30.1%
Puckett, Mississippi - 29%
Troy, New York - 24.3%
Butte, Montana - 23.6%
McEwen, Tennessee - 22.7%
Albany, Louisiana - 22.5%
Abbeville, Mississippi - 21.9%
Havertown, Pennsylvania - 21.7% (Known as the "33rd county," a reference to the 32 counties of Ireland)
Erin, Tennessee - 21.0%
Hester, Louisiana - 18.4%
Hernando, Mississippi - 18.1%
Greenwood Village, Colorado
Brandon, Mississippi 16.5%

Everyone's a damn Cherokee or one of those made up Lumbee's

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Who knew the OT was full of history buffs?

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Scots Irish

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Can anyone give a brief breakdown on the definition of Scots Irish? I'm just plain Irish and I always assumed that Scots Irish was some sort of mix between Scot and Irish but the info I can find on the web is a little confusing. From what I can find the Scots Irish are actually English that moved to Northern Ireland in the 17th century (known in Ireland as Ulster Scots). Is that correct?

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I always thought they were scots that moved to ireland

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I figured it was something like that but I guess the Scots part was just taken from the name of a regional English accent.

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The language of the Angles evolved into a sister language of the English of Saxons. It is called Lowlands Scots and seems to be just a quaint dialect of English but it has no linguistic relationship to Gaelic, the language of the highland Scots.

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To see that the Scot Irish were in no way ethnically Scottish or Irish one has only to look at their surnames. For example, take Andrew Jackson, one of the Scot Irish American presidents. One could hardly find a surname more English (Anglish) than Jackson. Or, take Jefferson Davis, the Scot Irish president of the Confederate States of America. Again, Davis is thoroughly English, or one might say more accurately, Anglish because although the country and language were named after the Angles they are the work of the Saxon immigrants.

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Most of the Scot Irish are actually Scots that moved to the 7 counties that make up northern Ireland. William of Orange was king of England and persuaded the Scots to move there. They are not Irish and didnt mix with local Irish population mostly. They are the protestants that clashed with the catholic Irish.

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So are they the ancestors of the current Protestants in Northern Ireland that beef with the IRA?

eta- nvm, you answered that.