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New European-Americans, maybe. But most people whose family were in the United States before 1900 are either overwhelmingly majority German or overwhelmingly majority English with some Scottish. The Irish played a very small role until after the potato famine. The very mixed Italian-Irish-Slavic-Greeks are only prominent in certain cities. Actual American identity as well was simply a group of English speaking British people fracturing from a specific flavor of English rule, but still an overwhelming British culture, society, people, laws, and ethnicity. That is my ethnic background. And even though americans did not call themselves "English" for very long afterwards, we called ourselves Anglos for a very long time and the English language and laws and history and culture were still the culture of America. Only very recently has this idea that America can be Italian, Russian, Polish, Hispanic, etc. been taken seriously. Up until the last 50 years this was an Anglo country. Real Americans are Anglo Americans.
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