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Are these cousins on 23andme living further south? SSA appears to pop up in people from Virginia and South Carolina and I'd assume to a degree descendants of people whose origin are from these states. I don't include Louisiana since it has a different history than that of the rest of the south.
An interesting fact is in the very early days of settlement in Virgina Black slaves were treated as indentured servants instead of as slaves and they intermarried with White indentured servants. I suspect the same happened in South Carolina and this is much of the basis for that little bit of SSA% in some southerners in that some of the descendants could pass as White and did so.
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