One of my grandfathers was of pure New England Puritan descent; the other of Virginia settlers moving to the North Carolina mountains - ancestors came as early as the 1620s - English with a sprinkle of lowland Scots and Welsh - damn straight I’m proud of my heritage, North and South both.
Anglo-Saxon on both sides here. One side by way of Puritan NE (1630), the other by way of Georgia (and yes, I know what that means). The Yankee branch was very active in the Revolutionary War and early Federalist administrations with a signer of “the Declaration” among them. The “Reb” branch were all small farmers. You’re darned right I’m proud of my ancestry.