To what degree was a unique "American" nationality developing in the e

Question: To what degree was a unique "American" nationality developing in the eighteenth century colonies!?
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Definitely the further inland you went from the Atlantic coast you experienced the beginnings of what was uniquely American culture!. In Appalachia, you certainly had the trappings of an American culture (or subculture) the maintained it's unique identity, to some degree even today!. Much of the influence of the Scotch-Irish played a role in defining for both governmental and everyday life what America would become culturally!. They started to arrive and have a heavy influence during the late 17th and early 18th centuries!. They were Scottish lowlanders who spent some time in what is now Northern Ireland before they defected to the colonies!. They settled throughout, but mostly mid-Atlantic states like the Carolina's, Virginia and Pennsylvania!. In the UK Scotch-Irish would be known as Ulster Scots, or Northern Irish Protestants!.

U!.S!. Presidents of Ulster-Scots descent:
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
Chester Alan Arthur
James Knox Polk
Ulysses S!. Grant
Grover Cleveland
Andrew Johnston
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton

Famous Scots-Irish:
Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Elvis Presley, Neil Armstrong, George Best, Edgar Allen Poe, Johnny Cash, Jack Dempsey, Amelia Earhart, Davy Crockett, John Wayne, St!. Columbkille, Sir William Ferguson Massey, Arnold Palmer, Henry Joy McCracken, Robert Mitchum, Stephen King, Elizabeth Taylor, Van Morrison, David Tennent, Chuck Norris, James Nesbitt, Ava Gardner, Gen!. George Patton, Christina Ricci, Sir Claude Auchinleck, Jimmy Ellis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Thomas Andrew Mellon, William Clark (lewis & Clark Exp) & 17 Presidents of the US!.

And me!.!.!.although I'm not famousWww@QuestionHome@Com