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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. :) The most powerful group is always at the top, and it's
Tue May 17, 2022, 02:34 PM
May 2022

usually the most numerous. The ethnic/religious/racial group changes from country to country. In it's white and Christian, and whites are still 3/4 of all Americans. Although it should be noted that we've managed a great acceleration of assimilation and social mobility in the last century that will continue.

Certainly agree there's no consistent definition of who's "white" and who is not, a "problem" for answering this question perhaps but a good in every other way?

Our grandchildren's other grandmother is similar in physical characteristics to President Obama, but where he's always been identified as ("is" ) black, she's been identified as ("is" ) white; she's a member of the DAR and lives in the Deep South as a member of her community's white upper class.

Noting that the question is not how many Americans have recent ancestors who are a different race, but maybe it should be. Seems to me it would apply to her as asked because she identifies white but not to you, as asked, because you don't. And that doesn't make good sense to me.

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