Message from @ophiuchus

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2018-09-16 02:01:52 UTC  

Yeah I’m still majority beady

2018-09-16 02:02:10 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:03:35 UTC  

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.)

2018-09-16 02:04:07 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:04:26 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:07:01 UTC  

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.

2018-09-16 02:07:24 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:07:26 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:07:40 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:07:43 UTC  

The Scots-Irish are Scots who lived in Ireland.

2018-09-16 02:07:49 UTC  

So have I haha

2018-09-16 02:07:51 UTC  

It's strange

2018-09-16 02:08:29 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:08:38 UTC  

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.

2018-09-16 02:08:52 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:09:25 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:09:51 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:10:11 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:10:46 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:10:52 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:11:29 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:11:57 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:12:17 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:12:18 UTC  

Lol

2018-09-16 02:12:54 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:13:08 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:13:30 UTC  

It's quite strange

2018-09-16 02:13:45 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:13:49 UTC  

idk

2018-09-16 02:14:06 UTC  

I wonder who produced those cowboy movies

2018-09-16 02:14:08 UTC  

maybe the Cherokee girls just like white guys...

2018-09-16 02:14:30 UTC  

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

2018-09-16 02:14:54 UTC  

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.

2018-09-16 02:16:23 UTC  

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.)

2018-09-16 02:17:06 UTC  

Nice guy

2018-09-16 02:17:08 UTC  

You have my mom and her sister who look incredibly Caucasian, then I have an aunt who looks like she came from one of those velvet paintings with the moon and wolves and dream catchers etc.

2018-09-16 02:17:48 UTC  

The “drunk Indian” stereotype is apparently quite true, unfortunately.

2018-09-16 02:17:49 UTC  

I have some distant cousins who got with blacks, but otherwise my family is huwhite af

2018-09-16 02:18:07 UTC  

I think I remember reading that natives literally lack the enzyme that lets them break down alcohol.

2018-09-16 02:18:16 UTC  

Yes that's true

2018-09-16 02:18:38 UTC  

They have zero tolerance for it because they never had it until we came along