Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

The Atlantic ^ | October 7, 2025 | Ali Breland

[MinorityRepublican]

In August, a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast said something that immediately caught his interest. The United States faces a fundamental rift “between heritage Americans and the new political class,” Auron MacIntyre, a columnist for Blaze Media, argued. “Heritage Americans—what are those?” Carlson asked.

“You could find their last names in the Civil War registry,” MacIntyre explained. This ancestry matters, he said, because America is not “a collection of abstract things agreed to in some social contract.” It is a specific set of people who embody an “Anglo-Protestant spirit” and “have a tie to history and to the land.” MacIntyre continued: “If you change the people, you change the culture.” “All true,” Carlson replied.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: alibreland; auronmacintyre; blazemedia; theatlantic; tuckercarlson

[FLT-bird]

That’s the percent that would publicly admit to it....at a time when they would be discriminated against in many places if they did admit to it. Its kind of like those surveys when gun grabbers claim say “see??? Only 25% of people in this state own guns.” The answer of course is no....only 25% are willing to admit to a total stranger over the phone that they own guns.....

[ansel12]

LOL, you live in your own fantasy world, ignoring all the history and all the facts, you made up your own fantasy and by golly you will stick with it, no matter how absurd it is.

[FLT-bird]

I would say the same of you. Where did all the Catholics in Britain go in the 50 years between the reign of Elizabeth I and the founding of Jamestown? Think they all converted?

You haven’t even tried to answer because you don’t have a good answer. We both know that.

LOL

[ansel12]

They didn’t come to the British colonies obviously, how can you ignore all the historical facts and data that even the Catholic church agrees with and just choose to live with your own personal fantasy, which is totally ungrounded and without connection to anything outside of your own imagination?

[FLT-bird]

Where do you think they went? There are plenty of Cavaliers who came to Virginia. British Catholics overwhelmingly supported Charles I because he was more religiously tolerant and had a Catholic wife. They sure as hell weren't about to trust the Puritan fanatic Roundheads. Where else in the world could they go they spoke the same language and had the same culture? Not New England - they too were Puritans and had close ties to the Roundheads. Where does that leave?

There aren't many answers. Maryland and Jamestown are two such answers. I know from my own family history since they WERE exactly what I described. There's a reason why they came in 1649 specifically. That was the year James I was beheaded after the Roundheads won the English Civil War. If you were of any religious persuasion in England/Wales other than a Puritan (yes even other Protestant sects), it was time to get the hell out.

[ansel12]

Same personal fantasy and ignoring all historical fact.

Catholics in British America
“There were only about 300 Catholics in Virginia at the time of the American Revolution.”
“in 1765, the Catholic minority in Maryland numbered about 20,000.”

[mac_truck]

America had close to zero Catholics at its founding

Close to 2% of the colonial population, but whose counting?

[ansel12]

Actually from as low as .4% to the most used percentage of 1% with some Catholics claiming 1.2%, in other words, “close to zero”.

[FLT-bird]

Same lack of an answer. Where did they all go? Odd that that minority was supposedly so tiny yet my ancestors on both my father’s and mother’s side were among them.

[ansel12]

Research that irrelevant question yourself, what we do know for a flat out fact, is that Catholics did come to the British colonies in large numbers and were not here in large numbers at the founding of America, and were in fact about 1% of the population.

You don’t accept the history, not even from Catholic universities or encyclopedias or any history at all, so continue to live in your imagination.

[FLT-bird]

What we know is that pretty much all the Catholics in England and Wales were Cavaliers. At the conclusion of the English Civil War, the Cavaliers left. They overwhelmingly went to Maryland and Virginia. Given the overt religious discrimination at time its hardly surprising many were not exactly open about their faith. Look up for example the term “priest hole”.

[ansel12]

At first I thought you were faking this silliness, but you have convinced me this is truly you.

[FLT-bird]

I’ve devoted too much time to you/this already. I can see you are going to cling to this as a matter of dogma. So have at it. I’m not going to waste any more time with this.