White American State Averages K15

[J. Ketch]

Technically, to be Irish, you just have to be born in Ireland or descended from someone who was born in Ireland. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are Gaelic or Insular Celtic. It is the Highland Scots who are the Gaelic/Insular Celtic ones, not the Lowlanders who would be more Germanic.

Lowland/Border Scots are more Germanic but they are still of majority Insular Celtic ancestry, and genetically distinct from Southern English; which is what American Southerners genetically resemble most closely (most states are actually further from Scots/Irish than Southern English are on average).

[J. Ketch]

True. The so-called "Scots-Irish" are mostly descended from Lowland Scots so they would be closely related to Northern English people. But are the "rednecks" more closely related to the southeastern English - who are mostly Anglo-Saxon - or the southwestern English who are largely Insular Celtic?

The former - who are not mostly Anglo-Saxon but Franco-Saxon.

[celticdragongod]

The former - who are not mostly Anglo-Saxon but Franco-Saxon.

Who are the Franco-Saxons?

[J. Ketch]

Who are the Franco-Saxons?

It's a term I'm coining to describe the fact that the English are not majority descended from migration era Anglo-Saxons but from migration era Anglo-Saxons + Franks/Frenchmen. I believe the presence of both components together is too closely correlated across Britain to be mere coincidence.

[celticdragongod]

It's a term I'm coining to describe the fact that the English are not majority descended from migration era Anglo-Saxons but from migration era Anglo-Saxons + Franks/Frenchmen. I believe the presence of both components together is too closely correlated across Britain to be mere coincidence.

Weren't the Franks Germanic?