Junior Johnson, the stock car driver made famous outside of stock car circles by Tom Wolfe in his "new journalism" article, The Last American Hero. From article I learned about Junior, stock car racing, moonshining in Appalachia (Junior did time), and the Scotch-Irish who populated that region. The Southern Scotch-Irish were fearless. In the Korean War, there were 78 Medal of Honor winners. 32 were from the South, and almost all of them were from the small towns in or near the Appalachians. On the other hand, the NYC metro area, with a population greater than all those little towns combined, produced only three, and one of those was a recent transplant from... Appalachia. Anyhow, those nerves of steel served Junior well on the race track.