He greatly underestimates the German element, which was important in West Virginia.

He sums up by stating that the Kentuckians come from the "truly British people," quite a different thing from his statement that they are "English." The "truly British people" consists of a conglomerate of as distinct races as exist anywhere in Aryan Europe.

The Erse, Welsh, and Gaelic immigrants to America are just as distinct from the English, just as "foreign" to them, as are the Scandinavians, Germans, Hollanders, and Huguenots--often more so.

Such early families as the Welsh Shelbys, and Gaelic McAfees are no more English than are the Huguenot Seviers or the German Stoners.

Even including merely the immigrants from the British Isles, the very fact that the Welsh, Irish, and Scotch, in a few generations, fuse with the English instead of each element remaining separate, makes the American population widely different from that of Britain; exactly as a flask of water is different from two cans of hydrogen and oxygen gas.