Originally Posted by
Creoda
Thanks for your comments. Yes, the South is very English, but in theory it should be even more 'British' than it is, White Southerners were not only English but also heavily Scottish, with some Irish Catholic and Welsh ancestry too, and yet many of the Southern states are a bit continental shifted even compared to Southeast English, who are the most continental British people. So evidently the South (outside Louisiana) has some minor German and French ancestry, as well as non-Euro, that shifts them a little bit away, and makes even heavily Scottish areas plot more like average English instead.
I guess I haven't come across many Melungeons, I don't know why, maybe they're not a large population. The SSA element in the South is notable though. My Southern average is 0.5% SSA, but unlike in Afrikaners it is far less evenly distributed, most don't have any.
Target: US_South
Distance: 0.2004% / 0.20035041 | ADC: 0.25x RC
81.7 English_Southeast
14.5 French_Brittany
3.3 Irish_Leinster
0.3 Yoruban
0.2 Bantu_Eastcentral_Africa
I included all groups from Europe, those legally treated as 'White' historically in the Anglosphere, including Ashkenazi Jews (even if I don't consider them White with a capital W myself). But these are fairly minor groups historically outside urban areas, so their influence isn't felt in most places. Only heavily in NY, Chicago etc as you can see. New Jersey should probably be more Southern but it's a low sample size.
(...)