Born Fighting

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America () is a book by Jim Webb published in 2004.

It is a personal view of the Scots-Irish in the United States. Webb maintains that Scots-Irish attitudes form the bedrock of American society, especially among the working class. Writing of the author in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Drew notes he is a "warrior-intellectual."

Webb's version of history has been heavily criticized by historian Michael Newton (University of North Carolina), who has called it "an example of what happens when a writer (without a proper grasp of history or the historical method) exploits Scotland and its people for his own political ends", dismissing its assertions as "narcissistic and careless in the extreme."