re: Map of the US showing ancestry by county

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Most people that refer to themselves as American are probably the groups that came prior to the mid 1850s. The early English and scotch-Irish peoples have been here long enough to lose much of their association with the old country. And many have bloodlines that fought in the Revolutionary War. They are American.

Newer groups like the Irish in the 1850s, and Italians in the early 1900s, still have attachment to their prior countries.

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Exactly ... Americans are those of us who .... well frick it, everybody just watch Gangs of New York.

My family, and even my wife's family, both came here prior to 1750 through Charleston.

We're both English, Scotch-Irish and I do have a distant pinch of Dutch-German mixed in. SC is loaded with Lutherans.

I was always taught that you can tell a lot about an area by the dominating religion in the area. This area is actually know as Dutch fork for instance.

I lol at that map claiming African+American dominance throughout this state though .... that's total bullshite.