Study: ‘White’ Southerners Have More African Ancestry Than They Realize

Most of us observed White Supremacist Craig Cobb’s reaction when a black talk show host revealed his DNA results and said, “You have a little black in you.”

The DNA results didn’t shock most of us, but Cobb was in denial. It turns out, the South is populated by self-identified white people who also have African American ancestry.

In a new study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers used the ancestry data compiled by the commercial genetic testing company 23and Me to measure the percentage of African ancestry of people who self-identified as white. It turns out that self-identified white people who live in the South have the highest concentrations of African DNA.

In South Carolina and Louisiana — the states shaded the darkest green on the map above — researchers found that one in 20 people who called themselves white had at least 2 percent African ancestry. And in a lot of the South, about 10 percent of people who identified as white turned out to have African DNA….

They could even pin down the timing: the mixture generally occurred in the early 1800s, when slavery was legal. That, of course, reflects what historians know about white slave owners raping enslaved women who descended from Africa.

My Conservative brother was very disappointed when he got his DNA results. My family’s ancestry is really, really white. He was disappointed. He was hoping for a little bit of each race. Suck it up, Bro. We are what we are. His gorgeous black wife loves him for who he is.

White Southerners will get over their shock, too.

Image: Vox, Hollywood Reporter

By: Anomaly100