Classify me? Black American from North Carolina

[Cameron]

I only identify as Black American but apparently I have some distant Irish and Choctaw ancestry or something. I'm from a small, rural eastern NC town. In larger cities people sometimes assumed I was from another country or that I was Ethiopian(?) I'm just curious but I think I just look Black.

[Ambrosius]

It's obvious from your skin tone alone that you have European ancestry - African Americans have 24% on average, so it's not surprising. You think you "just look black" because what you conceive of as "black" is actually black with mild to moderate European admixture.

The Irish dominated settlement of Appalachia, so if you're from rural NC, Irish is indeed a likely candidate.

Can't speak to Choctaw ancestry. It's plausible but not really apparent from your appearance.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's obvious from your skin tone alone that you have European ancestry - African Americans have 24% on average, so it's not surprising. You think you "just look black" because what you conceive of as "black" is actually black with mild to moderate European admixture.

The Irish dominated settlement of Appalachia, so if you're from rural NC, Irish is indeed a likely candidate.

Can't speak to Choctaw ancestry. It's plausible but not really apparent from your appearance.

Scots-Irish not Irish.

https://www.lmc.edu/about/news-cente...appalachia.htm

[Ambrosius]

Scots-Irish not Irish.

https://www.lmc.edu/about/news-cente...appalachia.htm

Would argue that this is perhaps a distinction without a difference. As the term "Scots-Irish" only came into usage during later waves of immigration from Ireland that earlier settlers wanted to distance themselves from, it reflects politics and ideology more than a hard and fast genetic distinction. Despite the semantic distinction, many self-professed "Scots-Irish" did not have Scottish ancestry, but did have Irish ancestry.

[Incal]

You give me Chris Tucker vibes but with lighter skin.

[ugochaves]

Scots-Irish not Irish.

https://www.lmc.edu/about/news-cente...appalachia.htm

You have to get rid of complexes. You are destroying the Irish with every message you send. I am ready to accept you into the ranks of the Russians. Russians have self-respect, but you Irish don't have self-respect.

[Grace O'Malley]

Would argue that this is perhaps a distinction without a difference. As the term "Scots-Irish" only came into usage during later waves of immigration from Ireland that earlier settlers wanted to distance themselves from, it reflects politics and ideology more than a hard and fast genetic distinction. Despite the semantic distinction, many self-professed "Scots-Irish" did not have Scottish ancestry, but did have Irish ancestry.

Interesting but do you have any evidence for that? If you read any history of Appalachia it is the Scots-Irish that settled there. Catholic Irish might have come in small numbers but it was only from 1820 and of course during the famine years that the greatest bulk of Irish Catholics came.

If I look where the majority of my matches in the US are it is by far the east coast around New York and New Jersey and the next hotspot is Chicago and Indianapolis. This makes sense as to where most Irish descendants are. As I've said if you research Appalachia it is the Scots-Irish who in the majority settled those areas.

European settlement expanded rapidly after 1730, when Virginia law awarded land speculators one thousand acres for every family settled west of the Blue Ridge and North Carolina offered free "headrights" of one hundred acres to prospective settlers. From 1730 to 1830, waves of German, Scotch-Irish, and English immigrants pushed south and west from Pennsylvania into Appalachia, displacing Indian peoples and resettling western Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee and Kentucky.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/...and%20Kentucky.

[Grace O'Malley]

You have to get rid of complexes. You are destroying the Irish with every message you send. I am ready to accept you into the ranks of the Russians. Russians have self-respect, but you Irish don't have self-respect.

It is just good to be accurate dear Ugo with these sort of topics.

[Andullero]

Scots-Irish not Irish.

https://www.lmc.edu/about/news-cente...appalachia.htm

Aren't Scotsmen ultimately Irishmen with some Pictish, Anglo and Norse admix thrown in?

[ugochaves]

It is just good to be accurate dear Ugo with these sort of topics.

You are being trolled by black people. You're making excuses! The Irish don't need to make excuses. You are a red Celto-Baltic potato, very similar to Russian. Have you met a Russian who wants to be like a real European?. This is lol. I want to be like a Swede, a Boer or a Saami, I don't want to be like a real European. If you call a Russian a European, it's an insult. Ask any Russian on this forum... all Russians, except liberal fools, do not consider themselves white Europeans. It's a shame to be a white-brown European.