# Finally, alcoholics get the respect they deserve!

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> And why “McGrowl”? I don’t think Scotland is known for its thriving bear population.

Large segments of the Appalachian-American population (and other rural southerners often described with, shall we say, unflattering words) tend to be associated with lower-class Scots-Irish roots. So there has always been quite an intersectionality of stereotype going on at the Jamboree.

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