1853, William Francis Lynch, Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea:
The antipathies between the highland Gael and the southron, of the Scottish border, were not more inveterate than the hostile feeling existing between many of the tribes.
1898, Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, Memoirs of a Highland Lady:
A great mistake was made by the Stage Managers, one that offended all the southron Scots; the King wore at the Levee the Highland dress.
2007, Sarah Gabriel, To Wed a Highland Bride
"Between the banshee in the foyer, the ghosts in the house, and the garden fairies, two of the maidservants packed up in haste and left for Edinburgh."
"Southrons," she said with a little huff. "Highlanders do not mind such things."
2014, Allan D. Kennedy, Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688:
Roderick Morison, the 'Blind Harper' in the service of the MacLeods of Dunvegan, sweepingly dismissed Lowlanders as “southron strangers” in a poem from the 1680s.
