Today, the state of North Carolina has more citizens of Scottish

Yep. Most come to America because they were disposed from their land in Scotland so the British compensated them from land in NC. Also Lowland Scots came from Pennsylvanian after going there from Northern Ireland.

>>77905409
>British compensated them from land in NC
where did you read this?

>>77905857
It appears that the main cause of most of the emigration from Scotland during this period was due to the rapidly deteriorating economy and standard of living in the Highlands and the lure of economic relief and the promise of a
golden future in America as communicated through letters from America to Scotland. Letters written from North Carolina to friends and relatives in the Highlands spurred an almost continuous flow of newcomers until the
movement stopped by the Revolutionary War (Lefler & Powell, 1973). An examination of ships records shows that most Highlanders reported leaving Scotland because of high rents on their land and oppression or high rents & Better Encouragement (Graham, 1956).
The writers family was part of this mass exodus of the 1770s.

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>>77906299
*With land

>>77906364
source?

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>>77906364
the article I'm reading also says: After the War, the Whigs in North Carolina (anti-British) confiscated estates of Loyalists and many Scottish Highlanders migrated from North Carolina to Canada, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas (even though, as tensions lessened over the next generation, many Scots in Canada did make their way to the United States).

I'm wondering if maybe the land they are referring to might be connected somehow with what you were saying (i.e. British compensated them with land in NC)