Americans with pure (or near that) English colonial ancestry...

[Isleño]

Must be remembered that 98% of the people in America calling themselves "Irish" have no Irish ancestry at all, just relatives who came TO America from Ireland, after fucking it up. So just about anyone who calls themselves "Irish" or "scots irish" can be safely assumed as colonial English. None of them are Irish or Scottish nor were their ancestors. And of course EVERYONE who was born and raised here is an American and nothing else.

I disagree with this. Irish is the second largest European DNA in the US. There are tons of actual Irish blood in the US.

[Isleño]

I wouldn't say pure colonials are common generally. But they do exist, especially in the South (perhaps parts of the southern Midwest as well) and in New England. The more rural the area, the more likely.

I think America has reached a point where little distinction is made between European ethnicities. Spaniards may be an exception due to the mass confusion on what exactly a Hispanic is. Generally, though, as long as a person is of European descent, most other European-Americans will be open to marriage.

I think there are significant numbers of Americans that are majority English, but I think English is one of the oldest groups, it's more mixed among white Americans. But I have met Americans that were largely English on both sides.

As for the confusion Spaniards get in the US because many people confused about Hispanic, I get that a lot when I leave my area. I get Cuban all the time. But in my area, people are familiar with Spanish-Americans.

The US is one of the few places in the Americas that still hold on to their ancestral heritage and are often hyphenated. Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Spanish-Americans, etc. Go to other parts of the Americas and they are just Argentines or Chileans or Costa Ricans or Venezuelans etc. We are more divided than they are.

[JohnSmith]

New England or the Deep South.

[Antimage]

Grab the Gauge claimed to be mostly of colonial English ancestry, "with one dutch ancestor from the 1600s" or something

[JohnSmith]

I wouldn't say pure colonials are common generally. But they do exist, especially in the South (perhaps parts of the southern Midwest as well) and in New England. The more rural the area, the more likely.

I think America has reached a point where little distinction is made between European ethnicities. Spaniards may be an exception due to the mass confusion on what exactly a Hispanic is. Generally, though, as long as a person is of European descent, most other European-Americans will be open to marriage.

I agree,,like I said before most(not all) white girls still are hesitate to bring a non-white guy home to meet mommy and daddy(no matter what they say publicly). I suppose some are more with East Asians or South Asians, but generally they will not date non-white guys seriously but of-course they will never admit this.

[Peterski]

I've seen families where one parent is Sicilian and the other is Irish. The Sicilian parent scores 15% Middle Eastern, while the child scores 0%.

How is this possible?

It is possible due to 23andMe's methodology.

DNA tests aren't what people think they are. Genes are passed down randomly so the genes that are used as locational markers may or may not be passed to offspring. Siblings frequently have surprisingly different dna results because of this.

Nope, it is just caused by their methodology:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...=1#post4373107

http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads...l=1#post507243

In GEDmatch this Near Eastern will be visible.

[Grace O'Malley]

Again contradicting statements, Eamon de Valera raised over 5 million dollars when touring the u.s in 1919 and 1920 ( a big amount in of money back then) All from Irish Americans. I'm not down playing the Irish's role in their own independence but it's insulting to Irish Americans to just dismiss them the way modern Irish people do. The u.s was the only other nation even named in the Irish republic's proclamation in 1916, Ireland at that time had a massive kinship and respect for Irish Americans I don't know what happened to that in modern Ireland.

I do have massive respect for Irish Americans but you are over estimating their impact on Irish independence. It was all Irish intelligence and Irish blood that resulted in Ireland getting their independence from Britain over a long period of time. If you research the topic you will acknowledge this. The Irish diaspora however has been of great benefit to Ireland and Irish Americans have been very loyal to Ireland. However they had little impact on Ireland gaining independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence

[Piparskeggr]

According to the GEDmatch Eurogenes13 match utility...

Population
North_Atlantic 29.63
Baltic 12.03
West_Med 18.72
West_Asian 6.94
East_Med 22.73
Red_Sea 3.55
South_Asian 1.91
East_Asian -
Siberian 1.39
Amerindian 1.91
Oceanian 0.10
Northeast_African 0.28
Sub-Saharan 0.82

According to the 23andme match:

Italian 30.1%
Iberian 1.8%
Broadly Southern
European 17.2%
British & Irish 13.9%
French & German 0.8%
Broadly Northwestern
European 12.1%
Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5%
Broadly European 7.1%
Native American 1.1%
East Asian 0.5%
Broadly East Asian 0.5%
Broadly East Asian &
Native American 0.7%
Middle Eastern 1.5%
Broadly Middle Eastern &
North African 0.1%
Unassigned 0.5%

According to family: my mom is 100% (modern) Italian, her dad was born in Italy and her maternal grandparents were... My dad, 1/2 Irish (they came to the US in the 1730's - 1850's), 1/4 French-Canadian/Mohawk (came to the US in the 1860's) and 1/4 Lithuania Jew (came to the US in 1880's). There's English, German, Belorusian, Ukrainian, Danish, Croatian, Greek, Spanish and Moorish in there, too.

[JohnSmith]

I do have massive respect for Irish Americans but you are over estimating their impact on Irish independence. It was all Irish intelligence and Irish blood that resulted in Ireland getting their independence from Britain over a long period of time. If you research the topic you will acknowledge this. The Irish diaspora however has been of great benefit to Ireland and Irish Americans have been very loyal to Ireland. However they had little impact on Ireland gaining independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence

Irish Americans were not fans of supporting the UK in WWI because of the Ireland issue. Germany tried to help Irish freedom fighters because it disrupted the UK war effort in WWI. Also, an Irishman invented the modern submarine because he wanted to an effective weapon against the British Navy. The submarine was used to great effect against the UK in both World Wars.

[Smitty]

I think there are significant numbers of Americans that are majority English, but I think English is one of the oldest groups, it's more mixed among white Americans. But I have met Americans that were largely English on both sides.

As for the confusion Spaniards get in the US because many people confused about Hispanic, I get that a lot when I leave my area. I get Cuban all the time. But in my area, people are familiar with Spanish-Americans.

The US is one of the few places in the Americas that still hold on to their ancestral heritage and are often hyphenated. Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Spanish-Americans, etc. Go to other parts of the Americas and they are just Argentines or Chileans or Costa Ricans or Venezuelans etc. We are more divided than they are.

Majority English (and therefore, majority colonial)? Absolutely. My dad is one of them. But pure colonials, I'm not so sure about. I believe you are, correct?