- New England: 10.125 / 32 = 31.64%
- Mid-Atlantic: 11.375 / 32 = 35.55%
- South: 7 / 32 = 21.88%
- Germany: 2 / 32 = 6.25%
- Britain: 1.5 / 32 = 4.69%
Less than a third of Jeb's ancestry actually traces back to New England. You can see the table of Bush ancestors I used here, and see to which region I assigned each of the the 3g-grandparents below the fold (in most cases I chose to count Maryland as Southern; but where Maryland ancestry was mixed with Pennsylvania ancestry I counted it as mid-Atlantic).
While the Bushes represent the very epitome of hated Yankee/Puritan for many anti-New England types, they in fact have twice as much non-New England as New England ancestry.
New England:
32. Obadiah Newcomb Bush
33. Harriet Smith
34. Samuel Howard Fay
36. Thomas H. Sheldon
39. Elizabeth Slade Pierce
48. James Pierce
49. Chloe Holbrook
52 Samuel Ross Marvin
53 Julia Ann Place
Southern:
35. Susan Shellman
41. Harriet Mercer
42. Joseph Ambrose Beaky
44. William Gault Wear
45. Sarah Amanda Yancey
46. John James Holliday
47. Lucretia Green Foree
Mid-Atlantic:
56. John Wilson Robinson
57. Elizabeth Mitchell
58. Daniel Coe
59. Mary Gladden
60. Stephen Flickinger
61. Margaret Ann Figley
62. Jonathan Haines
Unknown, but likely mid-Atlantic:
27. Martha Ann Stokes [x2]
Unknown (presumably English)
6.25 %
63. Mary Jane Sprague
Mixed / other [1.125 New England; 1.375 mid-Atlantic; 1.5 born in Britain]:
37. Martha Uncles [half English / half mid-Atlantic; born in Ohio]
38. Courtland Philip Livingston Butler [5/8 New England, 3/8 mid-Atlanic]
40. George E. Walker [English father, Scottish mother; born in mid-Atlantic]
43. Mary Ann Bangs [half-New England, half-Mid Atlantic]
Germany:
50. Anton Pritzl
German (Bavaria)
3.125 %
51. Marie Louise Pasquay
German (Palatinate)
3.125 %
2 comments:
In a post last year, you estimate 5-6% as the proportion of "New England Colonial Yankee" in the overall White American ancestral pool today.
If that is the case, it means the Bushes are much more Colonial Yankee than the average White American.
The typical person views the Bushes as Southern, I thought.
Hail,
I'm talking about some fairly narrow but vocal groups of internet commenters.
And yes, the Bushes certainly have more New England ancestry than the average American. But many of the sorts of people I'm talking about imagine they're much closer to 100% New England stock than they are.
Even people like Kevin MacDonald have the false impression that northeastern "WASP" = New England Puritan ancestry.
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