[Colonel Kangaroo]

Considering the over eighty percent of the population that is of European heritage, America is predominantly a nation of transplanted Englishmen. Particularly in the South, where the English had established themselves for over a century before large numbers of Germans or other nationalities started to arrive,

[Rusty0604]

I have a little German in me but my ancestor in that group fought in the Revolutionary War.

I am a truly mixed breed:

6/16 Cherokee
3/16 Hebrew
3/16 English
2/16 German
2/16 Irish

[Clemenza]

1. That 80 pct of European ancestry included Hispanics, most of whom are racially mixed, ie nonwhite.

2. Americans of English ancestry are a small and dwindling minority, only bolstered if you include the Scots and Scots Irosh who form the bulk of the white population of the South. Most of the rest of us American whites do NOT consider the UK our mother country, and always found the WASPs to be laughable in their insistence that they are a "majority."