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re: Ancestral geneology of SEC people
Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:54 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:54 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
East TN is very Scotch-Irish for the most part.
Decent amount of Germans behind that
Decent amount of Germans behind that
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:57 pm to TRUERockyTop
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East TN is very Scotch-Irish for the most part.
Decent amount of Germans behind that
Arkansas is very similar, with the highest percentage of Germans being in the North and NW areas. Lots of bleed over of Native American blood in western Arkansas, too, just because there are so many in Oklahoma. Lots of African Americans east and SE of Little Rock.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:07 pm to TRUERockyTop
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East TN is very Scotch-Irish for the most part.
Decent amount of Germans behind that
Same for SC ... but add some Dutch in there as well. Especially in the midlands along with the Germans ... that's why we are a Lutheran state. Scotch-Irish upstate, Germans and Anglo-Saxons along the coast.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 2:17 pm to TRUERockyTop
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East TN is very Scotch-Irish for the most part.
Decent amount of Germans behind that
Scots and Irish plus Scots-Irish (picky but there's a difference). We also had a lot of French very early on. German influence is more westward but still prominent in the East. Tons of Native American heritage - black heritage (though not nearly as large as in the deep south). And even some forgotten groups - Jews from around the globe, believe it or not people from India (very early on) and several others that have been here from the start.
Most of our groups got absorbed into the large Scots-Irish banner via marriage. We were rural and had no time for worrying over where our mates were from or the grudges and social restrictions other places had.
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