Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

The Atlantic ^ | October 7, 2025 | Ali Breland

[ansel12]

Florida and Louisiana were not part of America before the 1800s anyway, they were not part of us as our British colonies and not part of our United States at our founding.

Around 120 years after your 1700 date, Florida became part of America, and in the 1830 census Florida had just under 35,000 white people total.

In Louisiana 103 years after your 1700 date, it became part of America and in the 1810 census had 34,000 white people.

[Woodman]

My 5th Great Grandfather Wintered at Morristown and Valley Forge. Came into the War from the North Carolina Militia and was enlisted from start to finish. Most of my ancestors have been here since the 1600’s. My Grand Mother’s family was part of William Penn’s first settlers. I think I might be a Heritage American.

For what it’s worth my wife is first generation from an immigrant family, and I think she is just as American as I am.

[sauropod]

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[Fiji Hill]

I like that term “Heritage American.” I despise the term “Anglo” which is what we are often called. Although some of my ancestors came from England, I feel no ties to or affinity for that country. And “Anglo” is often pejorative—kind of like the word for blacks that starts with “N.”

[MinorityRepublican]

And we have FReepers still using outdated terminology to refer to Blacks so I point out to them that the word is largely outdated and often considered offensive or inappropriate in contemporary usage except when used historically.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think you are most definitely a heritage American.

[AAABEST]

America had close to zero Catholics at its founding and they didn’t start showing up in numbers until the mid 1800s, our culture had centuries to develop as American, before immigration started changing us in the mid 1800s.

Oh look; globalist Zeeper neocon lecturing us on who and what is American.

GFY, then put your account to sleep for SEVEN YEARS... again, as you did before reactivating to join the Ukraine/NWO war-harpies.

Fraud.

[ansel12]

Wow, that has to be one of your weirdest posts ever.

[nwrep]

Sorry, don't understand the significance of this. What is the trouble for selling a boat?

that does not compare to the one who got in big trouble for selling a boat to a local Indian. Knowing the difficulty boat ownership can cause I think the authorities were very wise to throw the book at him

[FLT-bird]

Florida and Louisiana were not part of America before the 1800s anyway, they were not part of us as our British colonies and not part of our United States at our founding. Around 120 years after your 1700 date, Florida became part of America, and in the 1830 census Florida had just under 35,000 white people total. In Louisiana 103 years after your 1700 date, it became part of America and in the 1810 census had 34,000 white people.

Yes Florida and Louisiana weren't part of the US at the beginning....yet both were in the US by 1820 so its not exactly like they were very long from the beginning nor is it like the people there were newbies. They'd been there for a long time.

[nwrep]

Are they super wealthy like the old TV shows?

[ansel12]

You seem to be having some other discussion than the one at hand, this is about America and the British colonies that became America.

Remember post 53 that you are disagreeing with?

To: the OlLine Rebel; FLT-bird; Vigilanteman
Always with the Maryland, there were close to zero Catholics in America at its founding almost 150 years after my family got here, from as little as .4% to about 1%, close to zero.
53 posted on 10/9/2025, 3:39:18 PM by ansel12

[FLT-bird]

You seem to be making up some fake number in your head that the historians and records have all missed, what imaginary number or percentage is in your head?

You seem to be very certain of numbers/percentages which you can't prove.

[ansel12]

You must be pulling my leg, I have been posting the common, everyday, historical numbers.

I asked you before, what imaginary numbers are in your head, what do you want to pretend the percentage and number of Catholics were in America at our founding?

[FLT-bird]

I asked you before, what imaginary numbers are in your head, what do you want to pretend the percentage and number of Catholics were in America at our founding?

Since there weren't surveys at the time I can't name a total number or percentage. You can't either. What you claim to be "common everyday historical numbers" are "close to zero" as you said in your first post in this thread on the subject. That is false. Queen Elizabeth I's reign ended just 50 years before Jamestown was first settled and less than 100 years before the English Civil War. During her reign, Britain was still pretty divided between Catholic and Protestant. Do you really think almost all the Catholics just disappeared in a couple generations?

[ansel12]

This is wild, you think all these numbers historians use are fake and that no one really knew the population numbers or the number of Catholics, and that it is all made up because such things were unknowable at the time?

What are the numbers and percentages in your head? You keep insisting all the history is fake, so what numbers are you imagining?

[lastchance]

The bad news is, no they weren’t. However the good news is that no one was looking to behead them to gain an advantage.

[Fiji Hill]

Protestant--Catholic--Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology by Will Herberg (Chicago, 1955) is an excellent study of religion in the US up to 1955. He describes the development of Catholicism in this country, how many early Catholic settlers came from German-speaking countries, and then how immigrants from Ireland and other Catholic countries came to shape the faith.

[FLT-bird]

This is wild, you think all these numbers historians use are fake and that no one really knew the population numbers or the number of Catholics, and that it is all made up because such things were unknowable at the time? What are the numbers and percentages in your head? You keep insisting all the history is fake, so what numbers are you imagining?

I've asked you already....where do you think all the Catholics in Britain went in just a couple generations? Remember it was highly divided during the reign of Elizabeth I. There were no polls or surveys at the time so I don't know how anybody would have known the numbers. Your claim was "practically zero". So how do you come by that?

[ansel12]

They didn’t survey, the few Catholics were written down in Catholic records and the Catholic church kept track of its members, births, marriages, which priests were assigned to the English colonies and so on.

A source you should like.

The Catholic University of America
Catholics in Post-Revolution America
“Catholic people played a small, insignificant role in the American Revolution, mostly because they were a minority population. Only 1% of the 2 million British colonists were Catholic at the time of the Revolution.”
https://guides.lib.cua.edu/c.php?g=1414334&p=10477545

In 1785 there were 25 Priests in America.