While Scots-Americans once occupied a prominent place in American public life, as the race of Carnegie, Rockefeller, Jackson, and Grant dwindled and waned in the 20th century, so did their cultural influence, concluding with Disney's 1987 series DuckTales. In this essay I will
Kinda wild how Scrooge McDuck and Mr. Krabs are both variations on a 1800s-era racist trope about Scottish people being cheap