User talk:Plorenzini

Hi. I see that you may have introduced a factual error into William Jennings Bryan. If I am mistaken, please provide the source for your edit and an edit summary to help your fellow editors understand it. Thanks. Imagine Reason (talk) 17:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. Do you have a source for your information? It's just that all the sources I have found, and the ones listed on the article page, do not mention a Scottish ancestor. I'll gladly yield to any new info. Thanks.Imagine Reason (talk) 04:46, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Pietro Lorenzini re WJB enthnicity
Hi again, once again, assuming that you question the assertion that Willaim J Bryan was of Scot-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) ancestry and not Irish (i.e., Catholic Irish) descent, I would suggest the following: 1. though WJB noted in his Memoir that his ancestry is Irish, I suggest that this was done for varied reasons including (a) an often made mistake, in his day, to identify all from Ireland as Irish and thus not underscore the serious, centuries-old divide between the Catholic Irish and the Scots (i.e., Protestants) who were brought to the island to solidify English (i.e., Protestant) hegemony (b) the self-proclaimed Irish ancestory in WJB's book may have been made because of a well- intentioned determination to identify himself with a broader Irish experience which would, contcomitantly, likely produce large amounts of votes from Catholic Irish Americans in his varied political comapaigns. (c) WJB's Bryan male ancestors came from regions in Virginia which were settled by large migrations of Scot and Scot-Irish immigrants, thse people who came in great waves at the end of the 18th century and ealry nineteenth century and populated western Virginia, (and what would become West Virginia), Kentucky, etc (d) WJB's father, grandfather, and mother and her line, were all Protestants (indeed Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists; groups who taught that Catholics were not even Christians). Needless to say, these demoninations had been directly or indirectly influcenced by the teaching of John Calvin and his followers, the very teachings which were adopted by the Protestant Scots of Scotland and of Ireland. (e) please note, WJB's ancestory is noted as Sotch-Irish (or Scot Irish) in endnotes.com (f) it would be most unlikely that, with the great bias against Irish Catholics, WJB and his ancestors would have (i) achieved the successes that had achieved in property holdings, (ii) in getting college education (iii) and, also, it is not likely that Silas would have been able to marry a woman from a leading, very wealthy land-owning Virginia family yours, Pietro Lorenzini

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