July 25, 2019
Volume 49 - No. 30
By Friedrich Gomez
It may come as a complete surprise to most that the largest single ethnic group in America today is not the English – as many might surmise -but German. Yes, England is still historically referred to as our “Mother Country” and our Founding Fathers were, in large numbers, English as were most of the early presidents of the United The Paper - 760.747.7119
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States who claimed English ancestry. Academics on this subject are more surgically precise: “The extent of English heritage varies with earlier presidents being predominantly of colonial English Yankee stock.” Perhaps a broader and more accurate ethnic analysis would be to surmise that the lineage of most early American Presidents to have been predominantly of British origin. In essence, all of our
U. S. Presidents were/are of multiethnic origin, such as Richard Nixon who was of Scotch, Irish, English, and German lineage, to cite only one example. The early British influence has long permeated the DNA of America. Additionally, a surplus of our cities and states and even large regional areas, such as New England, New York, Boston, New Hampshire,
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Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia, etc. were named after counterparts in England. And though America has no official language (as many other countries have) our “unofficial” language which is most widely-spoken today is, of course, English. And to tie a bow around it all England remains our closest ally. But the train of similarity comes to a screeching halt after that.