Simon, rednecks and some blue collar guys are tough, but lots of Whyeksi-type white guys are wimpy too and would run from a fight. White Americans are a mixed group. My sense is that the large majority of British whites have the street fighter in them. As a society, they're more alpha, on average, than American whites.If you go to rural areas or the South, then the white population is probably more comparable to that of Britain.From what I hear, Scots and Irish are especially street tough people.