Pre U.S. Civil War ancestry ratio

[SouthDutch7991]

That'll work. "The London Isles" might be more like it these days.

This is too broad. We need something better,more like The United States of Times Square and Los Angelos for example.

[Redmar]

For white Americans I'll put it at 40-60%

[Creoda]

I think it’s the other way around. Most Americans have forgotten the ancestry of all but their most recent ancestor. Genetics are important (and a prerequisite to the second part), but knowing where you came from and what cultures your ancestors belonged to is even more important. For example I most likely had no ancestors that had any part in the siege of Constantinople of 1453 on either side, to claim some kind of pan-European ancestry would be misleading. In fact, I have very few ancestors at all besides some probable Vikings in the Scottish lines, Normans, and of course some Germans who, in any probability, spent time outside the British Isles post-600. So while I may take great interest in european events outside of them, like say Italian or Balkan or Iberian or French or Russian history, I can’t say that they are actually a part of me on a familial level.

It’s important to see your actual ancestral place in history, this is something that Americans are the weakest in when it comes to culture. I love my culture probably more than anywhere else, especially my local history, but I wish more Americans realized that they are actually Europeans, not just some white clay that rose up out of the ground, and further than that, I wish Americans realized that they have history in specific parts of Europe.

It's more than just forgetfulness, Americans have had a political aversion to calling themselves British/English since the beginning of the US, due to being it being born out of war with the mother country. They were seen as mutually exclusive identities/allegiances.

[Anglo-Celtic]

People forget that a lot of Irish Catholics came to America in the decades leading up the the Civil War so it's not just a "colonial stock" thing. The southern and eastern Europeans that came after the Civil War make up a minority of the white population so I think pre-civil war ancestry is more common than most think.

You don't have to be Catholic to be an authentic and genuine Irishman! Cheese and rice and faith begorrah.

[Anglo-Celtic]

This is too broad. We need something better,more like The United States of Times Square and Los Angelos for example.

I was referring to the financial influence. If you really want to go down the Freemasonic Rothschild esoteric bankster rabbit hole, check out the City of London.

[SouthDutch7991]

I was referring to the financial influence. If you really want to go down the Freemasonic Rothschild esoteric bankster rabbit hole, check out the City of London.

No thanks, Jacob rothschilds voice is too unpleasant to listen to. Sounds like an alien.

[InfamousAngel99]

Dad’s side is all colonial besides on French ancestor that came to the US shortly before the Civil War. All were southerners.
75% of my mom’s ancestors came to the US after 1890, but the ones that didn’t were in the North.