I just read
someone's meta about how using the prefix K/Mc for Kirk/McCoy is offensive:
The problem for me, though, is that "Mc" has been used historically in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere as an ethnic slur against Irish people, which McCoy is.*
Obviously as my name does not begin with Mc or Mac, I can't have an opinion on this but the part I'm fixated on is, I'm pretty certain that McCoy's not Irish. He has a Southern US drawl and I remember he talks about mint juleps in at least one TOS episode, but that's all I remember. And now I really want to know.
Does anyone remember any specific episode where McCoy refers to where he's from, or am I going to have to watch the whole damn show again?
Edit:
I'm going with Georgia, like DeForest Kelley, the actor who played him (first).
*For the record, I copied and pasted that line, I wasn't paraphrasing to make a point - the author of the post has since edited it to read differently.