If your ancestors were here before 1900 it's going to be pretty difficult for you to not find a single Englishman in your lineage.

@Jacob yes

Half of American population is still descended from people around during the Revolution

Identifying as "English" is uncommon on a census because it's 1) "not interesting" and 2) many of the English in this country have been here for hundreds of years. It's so distant as to be almost meaningless- for the point of contrasting.

Okay guys listen closely

As a child of immigrants, I give you permission to be as anti-immigration as you want.

Also, I was an anchor baby, and I'm giving you permission to say "anchor baby"

It's like those n-cards that your black friends give you

The unique pull of adventure to the new world and the lack of welfare drew a certain kind of European here!

Keep in mind this is a country of *settlers* not immigrants

Faustian spirit

Good example, my father is completely gung-ho about Irish stuff despite being only 1/4 Irish.

Settlers build something new. Immigrants just take advantage of stuff other people already made.

@VinceChaos European roots, American greatness!

My roommate with a mother who has an English accent didn’t consider English to be an ethnicity <:sad:366743316475281408>

It upsets my mom a bit that I identify as Anglo-American and don't snowflake about the recent Swedish component

Yes. I hate the term “Native American.” I’m the Native. My ancestors created America.

Amerindian is the correct term

Englishness is still normative Americanness to the point whites with anything else pick that out

Cause it's special

@Sam Southern - TN I should use that more

Amerindian is good

@Alexander Pechorintheres even more to it than that with evidence the people of European descent were the first to put feet on these lands.

If ancestors founding a nation 400 years ago doesn't qualify me as a native nothing does lol

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/indians/redman.html

Kinda like how Elizabeth Warren identifies with her 1/1024th Cherokee

This should be enough reason to be cautious of all immigration

@ThisIsChris I make a point to use it as often as possible to remind people of the difference

study that chart closely

Ok so we should only let in the Swiss

@ExternalPepsi @Alexander Pechorin no calling them "savages", an epithet rule 12

@Josh M. -OH True. Some interesting information there. Regardless, existing on a piece of land and acting like a savage in no way means you’re a native of the country other people created

> Polish 26% Republican

@ThisIsChris okay!

doubt

Real anti slav hours

They're not sending their best, folks. (except me, I'm the one exception)

(Pls no bully, am not serious)

Amerigo Vespucci and Christopher Columbus were not English. 😏 but they were white Europeans. It was i the divine plan that this continent would be discovered and settled by white Europeans ! This was the promised land

@Jacob Half Slavic my grandparents were from Plock, Poland

Chris Columbus never even got to North America lol

He hung around the Caribbean

Francis Drake did tho

@Virgil Oh nice my parents are from Pomerania