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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part III: Patriotism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_iii_patriotism#15878 Post contents: My namesake was, more or less, a mercenary for Cromwell way back in the day, but was not considered trustworthy, so his payment was lands in Ireland; the family, nominal Prots, became rootless after that. Like Yeats, eventually, the family that stayed behind, went native and became very sympathetic for the Irish people inventing a sort of nationalism (the "Anglo-Irish" designation is alleged to come from a later relation.) The lines that crossed the ocean, due to wars and economic booms and busts, appear to have lived no more than one or two generations in any particular spot, fighting in Uncle Sam's Wars, against the Red Coats, the Blue and the Grey, the Kaiser and Tojo, and transitioning from mining, to agrarians, to rootless service jobs. <i>Patria</i> is difficult (though I am trying in the literal Scotch-Irish rural town I live in); in the grand scope of things, I'll head North to Canada if Leviathan comes for my boys with some National Service project. Sent at: 2008 08 30