We did it. It was interesting. I was supposed to have a lot of American Indian...not. I’m half English, half Scandinavian with 6% Italian. Wifey about the same with 3% Middle Eastern in her.
When I moved to the South, most everyone I met, black & white, claimed Amerindian ancestry. "I'm 1/128th Choctaw on my mother's side..." Did not see this in the part of the North from which I hail.
The reality is blacks average 20% white across the black population and 0% amerindian. And whites in the South average about 0% amerindian and 0% black.
FTR, I have enjoyed my sojourn south of the M-D.
1. Made lots of good friends and learned how the bicoastal rat bastidges lie about folks down here.
2. Developed a taste for greens, truly a wonderful food. Best eaten with corn bread (no sugar in the mix, please) and fried catfish.
3. Y'all. The plural of you, informal. I resisted it for years, but it surely is handy.
