Scots-Irish

Mr Walz becomes the second running mate with claimed ancestry from the island in this year's presidential election, after Donald Trump announced 'Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart' JD Vance as his pick for vice-president.

Vance argues that the bad genes passed down through his Scots-Irish ancestors are the cause of the current social ills he is examining.

Currently, the four-five string banjo is the product of the influence of many different groups of people and regions just like how American roots music has inspiration from Scots-Irish and Appalachia roots too alongside its Black influences.

His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants who had arrived in America two years earlier.

Some linguists trace it back to the Scots-Irish phrase "ye aw"; others suggest an African American origin, perhaps from the Igbo word for "you" brought over by Nigerian-born enslaved people.