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**AdvertisingPo** · 09-22-2010, 07:52 PM

I agree with you about Britain. The darker British looks are not found among their American descendants, from my observation.

Most Americans in the North who have British ancestry have ancestry from the South of the UK.

The ones from the South have low land Scot and Northern English ancestry.

THis is why most country singers have Scotch-Irish names, those people concentrated in the South, especially in the "Appalachia". Some Germans went there too.

Welsh were scattered everywhere, "Jones" and "Brown" is a common name in the US, but "Davies" is not. hmmm

Many Germans who came into Pennsylvania originally, the largest area of early German immigration were from Bavaria...Benjamin Franklin said they were "dark" and "nonwhite"...many were also Catholic, which he also didn't like.

Southern Europeans and Jews often came much later, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the North Eastern states and concentrated there, and they are still concentrated there, although they have spread out a bit. I imagine most Jews in the U.S. are still in the Northeast, although a hell of a lot moved to California as well.

Many Scandinavians (Swedes, Norwegians, and Fins) moved to the Northern Midwest, but there were never a lot of them, not really, they moved to South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. Scando names are very common there. The movie Fargo shows those people and their weird pitchy accents, which came from their ancestors "bad English".

I know a lot of Germans, Poles, Czechs, and some Hungarians settled in the Midwest as farms too...a lot of Poles moved to Chicago, but from my understanding, most of these people were protestant (not the Poles, the others).

Where I'm originally from in Ohio you have a hell of a lot of German names, as well as some Czech.

A lot of Czechs also moved to East Texas for some region. That area also saw a lot of French influence from Louisiana, most of those French being Arcadians (having come by way of Quebec).

09-22-2010, 07:52 PM	#16
AdvertisingPo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 477 Senior Member	I agree with you about Britain. The darker British looks are not found among their American descendants, from my observation. Most Americans in the North who have British ancestry have ancestry from the South of the UK. The ones from the South have low land Scot and Northern English ancestry. THis is why most country singers have Scotch-Irish names, those people concentrated in the South, especially in the "Appalachia". Some Germans went there too. Welsh were scattered everywhere, "Jones" and "Brown" is a common name in the US, but "Davies" is not. hmmm Many Germans who came into Pennsylvania originally, the largest area of early German immigration were from Bavaria...Benjamin Franklin said they were "dark" and "nonwhite"...many were also Catholic, which he also didn't like. Southern Europeans and Jews often came much later, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the North Eastern states and concentrated there, and they are still concentrated there, although they have spread out a bit. I imagine most Jews in the U.S. are still in the Northeast, although a hell of a lot moved to California as well. Many Scandinavians (Swedes, Norwegians, and Fins) moved to the Northern Midwest, but there were never a lot of them, not really, they moved to South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. Scando names are very common there. The movie Fargo shows those people and their weird pitchy accents, which came from their ancestors "bad English". I know a lot of Germans, Poles, Czechs, and some Hungarians settled in the Midwest as farms too...a lot of Poles moved to Chicago, but from my understanding, most of these people were protestant (not the Poles, the others). Where I'm originally from in Ohio you have a hell of a lot of German names, as well as some Czech. A lot of Czechs also moved to East Texas for some region. That area also saw a lot of French influence from Louisiana, most of those French being Arcadians (having come by way of Quebec).
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