There's two sides in the sense that immigrants tend to be either very high skilled or very low skilled. The low skill people leave since they can't make it in their own country, and the high skill people leave since they have marketable skills that can make them massive money in the US. The middle people don't really have much reason to leave.

Who here /descendant of heartland farmers/

Gotta baste this bird real quick squirt squirt

I think it's more of a personality thing. Like "F my family dude I'm leaving" which explains why Americans are so itinerant.

Who else mayflower gang?

Real question is who else here is Magna Carta barons gang

Anyway, there's a lot of differences between settlers and immigrants of today. It took some really high agency to just grab what you could in one suitcase, go on a multi month voyage, and get started up without any organizational help.

My dad, for example, just hopped on a plane and had an organization resettle him. Absolutely not comparable to the guys on the Mayflower.

Jamestown gang gang

@Sam Southern - TN me to both fam

My mom's mom was the last US arrival and the most aristocratic, raised in Peru with maids n whatnot

We’re probably kin of some sort

You in your local chapter of the barons? I’m joining up after this weekend

Mayflower gang (pretty sure). ⛵

That’d be a trip to find out we’re related

My most recent ancestor arrived in 1996 😬

KY old best friend, AL best friend now

@Sam Southern - TN idk if I’m Mayflower gang but my paternal grandmother’s line dates back to the first Scottish peoples arriving in North America in the 1600s.

I am not, but I’ve considered joining something along those lines. I could join sons of the American Revolution like a dozen times over lmao

Logan's great great etc grandfather was in George Washington's army

Most Americans of colonial British extraction are descended from Edward III, so we’re likely related obscurely

gosh you guys are making me jealous

Yeah I’m applying (really just means submitting the paperwork) to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Sons of American Revolution, and Magna Carta Barons. Looking forward to meeting them all and getting some really good contacts going forward in the local business community

@Conway - OK very based

tfw your ancestors fought on wrong side of Civil War <:sad:366743316475281408>

TN AL connection through the SAR/MCB going to run the Southeast 😎

My ancestors were in the same region for at least hundreds of years until my parents broke the tradition

I have white guilt but for opposite the normal reasons

@Sam Southern - TN could join sons of confederate veterans and sons of union veterans

Would be lol, am considering doing

@Jacob Americans trace back 400 years some Euro genealogies can be traced waaayyyyy back

Of course Americans can too but it’s difficult to trace ancestry back to the European continent and keep going

American genealogies don’t stop on this side of the Atlantic

I mean I don't have a genealogy, but I can infer where my ancestors were using other information

Sitting down to eat now, but we should get a server going of relatives of SCV/SAR/MCB

Help to streamline applications and connections

My family never kept track of our ancestry

Red white and blueblooded Americans

Other than tracing the origins of my dad’s parents and grandparents last names and when the first of that name arrived in NA, I don’t know much about that side. My dads parents died before I was born, my dad was the 11th of 12 children and both of his parents were the final children of large families too. So most of the family records went to the first borns.

Get Ancestry.com kit. They actually try to match you to relatives

I just know that my dad's side is ethnically Kashubian, and I can look up what region Kashubians are from. That's my method for tracing my ancestry.

@Sam Southern - TN lmao enjoy your meal fam, I’ll dm you later