Study proves Southern white people have more black DNA than those in the rest of the U.S

[KamaAina]

http://thegrio.com/2014/12/22/study-southern-white-people-more-black-dna/

Many people who consider themselves “white” would be surprised to discover they have African ancestry — especially those in the South.

In an ironic twist, a new study has found that some of the states with the most racial tension are also the ones where the most white people have black ancestors. The findings published this month in the American Journal of Human Genetics found that whites in the South were far more likely to have black ancestry than any other part of the country....

South Carolina and Louisiana ranked highest on the list. Researchers found that one in 20 people who called themselves white in those states had at least 2 percent African ancestry. And in a lot of the South, about 10 percent of people who identified as white turned out to have African DNA as well.

What’s also worth noting is the genders of the specific people responsible for some Americans’ mixed ancestry. A whopping 19 percent of the ancestors of self-identified black people — were European male, while only 5 percent were European females. This racial mixing generally occurred in the early 1800s, when slavery was legal, further validating what historians know about white slave owners raping enslaved women who descended from Africa.

And this does not include the many mixed-race people in Louisiana who identify as Creole.

[ErisDiscordia]

1. Since we all came out of Africa Originally

We are all Africans!

[1939]

2. Was it Dick Gregory?

The following quote

"In the south, they don't care how close you get just so you don't get too high. In the north they don't care how high you get just so you don't get too close."

[tularetom]

3. There was always a family legend that one of my great great grandmothers was African American

My mom and dad were born in Tennessee and Oklahoma respectively. The story was that my father's grandmother was half Cherokee and half black.

Well, I had one of those DNA tests and it turns out that I have no African DNA. At all. Zero, zilch, nada.

I'm not making a value judgment, simply saying if you have a question, there are ways to verify.

[retrowire]

4. Awesome!

I'm pretty certain I've got black genes in my bloodline for the following reasons...

1. My irish ancestry may have been enslaved alongside black people.
2. My last name is more common in black families than it is in white.

Neat.

[Dr. Xavier]

5. Could you be one of the Black Irish?

Just askin'

[retrowire]

8. MY wife tells me that Black Irish

is technically a mix of portuguese and irish. Which I most likely am. But i dunno!

[Dr. Xavier]

6. This study makes me wonder because if this is true,

and you take into account the fact that geneticist now say that the vast majority of modern day Europeans and their descendants (Euro-Americans) have some Neanderthal DNA, it could explain why people from this region created and sustained White Supremacist Groups. Northern Whites did the same thing but they were less overt.

[ladyVet]

7. It wouldn't surprise me at all, and I would not be bothered by it.

In my father's family, they were Quakers who would buy slaves and take care of them until they could legally be freed. One man was so grateful he took the family's last name, and so I have what I consider to be black cousins. Since I have a rather large amount of Native American ancestry, to learn that there was a more biological connection with blacks wouldn't be surprising.

[linuxman]

9. I've got a work friend who self identifies as white.

He certainly doesn't look it, and he's told me that his grandmother is black, but he still will say he's white if it comes up in conversation. He's from Louisiana.

[JI7]

10. anyone remember Bob Barr ?

[KamaAina]

11. I was just thinking about him

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