Scottish-Irish Immigration 1700

In the above passage, it represents how in the 1700s the Scottish-Irish immigrants came to America broke but were culturally competent with literacy unlike many of the poor Irish Catholic immigrants that arrived in America due to the potato famine in Ireland. The change over time for the Scots-Irish immigrants began with a culturally diverse and economically inferior populous during the eighteen century facing social and religious stigmas connected to Protestantism which differed from most other Irish immigrants. However, once the Scots-Irish integrated into society they eventually assimilated and by the twenty-first century according to the 2012 Census Bureau of Statistics the Irish American were making $56,363 yearly for a medium income