[dboreham]

Obviously because they had no Scotsmen.

Proving that people who build walls to keep immigrants out do not fare well.

[robertlagrant]

This is the No True People Who Build Walls To Keep Immigrants Out fallacy.

[chiph]

I would have said Quakers. Because of persecution after the English civil war (Quaker Act of 1662, mostly), they couldn't hold public office. So they went into commerce & industry.

"Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the Mischeifs and Dangers that may arise by certaine Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawfull Oaths."

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp350-...

[egberts1]

And probably "no true Scotsman" either back then (until 1878).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[GeoAtreides]

Of all the ancient people to accuse of keeping out immigrants...