these days, you're either an international nationalist or a globalist

My Ancestry results also skewed heavily towards English but in my case that actually makes perfect sense

And is in line now with my LivingDNA results, so I'm inclined to think it's accurate

an Anglo conspiracy is afoot, methinks.

I mean, it makes sense. Anyone whose family has been in America for a long time is probably going to have some English in them

It'd be pretty hard not to

Yeah I’m still majority beady

Be awsome for Trump to step in on Hungarys side with their battle with the E.U. Someone should start a petition.

I’m also pretty sure that German/Irish census data responses are kinda inaccurate, because their self reported. So, if you don’t know about your heritage, you’ll likely just respond with whatever you’ve been told (which can be wildly inaccurate, like the Cherokee princess story.)

I’d wager the majority of old-stock Americans are mostly English, with some other stuff in there as well.

Not that any of this matters now. No matter what boat you came over on, we’re in the same boat now.

I've noticed a ton of people in the South weirdly think they're Irish. I have no idea why because there actually aren't many Irish people in the South, currently or historically. Southerners are overwhelmingly English and Scottish.

@ThisIsChris I’d wager English, but I’m not certain.

Yeah, where did the name Scots-Irish come from?

@Sherlock I’ve met like 4 billion people who think they’re Irish and Cherokee.

The Scots-Irish are Scots who lived in Ireland.

So have I haha

It's strange

I think that's part of the issue. A lot of Southerners are Scots-Irish and I guess they think their Scottish names are Irish names

From the English plantation of Ulster, begun during the Tudor era. Ulster (northern Ireland,) was considered a pretty backwater area, so the English decided to pacify it by importing a lot of Scots to settle there.

A lot of those Scots later dipped and moved to the Carolinas, etc.

This is likely where the “irish southerner” thing came from- they had ancestors from Ireland, they just weren’t ethnically irish.

The “Cherokee blood” thing comes from family folk legend and owo Muh native blood woo.

You’ll notice it’s literally always Cherokee. No one ever claims to be Creek or Muskogee or anything.

The great irony is that the Scots invaded Caledonia during the collapse of Western Rome

Yeah my grandfather insists we're part Cherokee to this day even though me and my dad have both had DNA tests and both had 0% Native American DNA

@TylerHess yeah, Scottish Gaelic is actually descended from Middle Irish. The Picts were there before them.

I was quite disappointed to discover I was 0.4% Indian. Some dalliance in the 17th century. F-ing thot.

@Sherlock same, although “Sioux” because his father was from Missouri. I looked- surprise, he was from Coventry.

Lol

There doesn’t seem to be that family folk history thing in the north, for some reason.

You never meet someone from Massachusetts claiming to be “part Narragansett”

It's quite strange

Maybe our grandfathers just grew up lusting after hot Indian chicks in cowboy movies

idk

I wonder who produced those cowboy movies

maybe the Cherokee girls just like white guys...

Well Mexican ones definitely do, for whatever that's worth

I think it’s probably out of the deep seated desire everyone has to belong to a group of people. Since “white southerner” has become demonized, they go with the strange “Cherokee” angle.

Incidentally, my grandmother’s husband was actually a Cherokee (you can tell by looking at my half-aunts and uncles.) He uh. Got drunk and beat her a lot, so she remarried a white guy from Texas (my grandfather.)

Nice guy