Who are we at du?

[salinen]

I'm curious about the ethnic makeup of du posters. Myself, I'm a male, both parents jewish, raised in California. So I guess that makes me a honky heeb. How bout you?

[emanymton]

1. Human

[WillyBrandt]

2. Male, Son of Hispanic Immigrants, Charming

Raised in FL, work in finance in CT, very working class background. Educated at a somewhat well known school in Cambridge, MA.

Early twenties. Very handsome. Enjoy long walks on the beach, Merlots, and good conversation.

[laura888]

103. wo - you sound like quite a catch!

if I were 20 years younger I'd jump on you :)

[Bertha Venation]

3. from a long and distinguished line of

poor white trash. I'm a mutt of European ancestry.

My mother was born in Topeka, Kansas; my father, Corn, Oklahoma. My father's great grandfather emigrated from Walheim, South Russia (now part of Poland, I believe) in 1874. My father's people were farmers; my mother's -- no clue. Hopefully I'll be able to find out soon.

I was born & raised in So. California; lived there until 2000, when I moved to Maryland. I brought myself up as a Baptist, but am now a spiritual mutt, too.

[salin]

4. midwesterner with a similar nick to yours

sometimes it is almost eerie - dontcha think? Have lived on both coasts and two midwestern states.

[kdmorris]

5. Well

I'm mostly European Caucasian. Some African and Native American thrown in. Raised in the Navy, but spent my high school years in Maryland. I just consider myself a mutt and like it that way.

:bounce: :bounce:

[MaineDem]

37. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[kdmorris]

55. Thank you

I've been lurking over my husband's shoulder for a while. He finally said "Why don't you make your own screen name? They don't bite". So far, I haven't been bitten or flamed.

:hi:

:bounce:

[Sperk]

6. White female-43. Half Irish, quarter German, quarter Scottish

ALL AMERICAN! :-)

[Bucky]

93. White male, non-european. I hate when people say I'm Euro-American

I was born in this country. My grandparents were born here. My great grand parents were buried in this country's soil. How much more American can I get than 100%?

[scarlet_owl]

7. Mexican, Irish, French, and German.

[burrowowl]

8. Quarter Mexican

heinz-57 European. Female 57.
Part anarchist since the age of 10.

[scarlet_owl]

13. 1/4 Mexican here too, burrowowl. We're both owls, too!

[populistmom]

I am a WASP, I am an island

Seriously, I'm a 31 (for another month anyway) year old married mom who's Protestant, Methodist that is (but grew up in both Protestant and Catholic churches- long story). My genetic ancestry is mainly English (also a little Scot thrown in there) and Swedish with a touch of German.

I grew up primarily in Omaha, NE, but have lived in Connecticut since I was 15.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. white female lesbian jewish 5 foot something virgo on the cusp of leo

with a leo rising and a recepted sun in leo

[Kathy in Cambridge]

75. Would have NEVER guessed you had any Leo in your chart, NSMA!

;-)

[Rowdyboy]

84. Thats hard to believe about someone

so shy and retiring.... :eyes:

[Kat45]

10. Female. half Italian, half Sicilian

From Greater Boston area.

[LuLu550]

52. Hahaha!

those of us with roots on the "Boot" have always thought as Sicilians as different from being Italian...which is what my ancestry is...100% Baby-Boomer, anti-Vietnam War era hippie liberal, too. :hippie:

[Nazgul35]

11. White anglo-saxon protestant...

who missed the most important lottery number of life....rich....so that makes me angry...

Born in New Jersey, lived in south jersey most of my life, spent three years in pennsy, ten years in florida (got tired of the heat), am currently living in michigan working on my phd...my wife's from scotland...

mostly a mutt though I was told I am german-english and french canuck...but I call myself an american, which gives my inlaws a tickle, they are use to americans claiming anything but american as their heritage....

[LastKnight]

12. 17, Male, part german, part dutch

lived in South Dakota my whole life... aaaand... uh... republicans piss me off... thats about it.

-LK

[SOteric]

14. My parents were born and raised in Parma, Italy

as were my eldest brothers, until the point when my parents moved to San Francisco's North Beach area. I was born in San Francisco. I was educated by Jesuits and raised a Roman Catholic. I am a practicing Catholic.

[Fovea]

15. Male Irish/English on my mothers side

with some Cherokee ancestry, I have been told.
I have no idea who my father was.

[devilgrrl]

16. Italian/English...

grew up in the Northeastern US

[demconfive]

17. Male. Half swedish, half sicilian.

What you might call a member of the Cosa Norska. Peasant stock. Raised all over, I'm now in Seattle. Working class.

[murielm99]

18. German, Swedish, Norweigan...rural.

Born and raised in the midwest, and still here.

[Cat Atomic]

19. Irish. I'm almost transluscent.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

56. Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Canadian n/t

[Kathy in Cambridge]

68. Me too-I glow in the dark!

Cheap Irish skin..

[Loco_moco]

20. Hawaiian, Chinese, Italian....

..born in Chicago, raised in Honolulu, living on Maui... :)

peace;
rob

[Wapsie B]

21. Heinz 57

Male with a German, Polish, and Scandanavian mixture. Midwesterner all my life.

[proud patriot]

22. ScotchIrish Cherokee Seminole n/t

[JohnKleeb]

23. ok

Me I am a white male Catholic with Irish, German, on my dad's side and Slovene, Slovak on my mom's, and possibly Russian. Oh I live in Northern Virginia but my family is originally from Pennyslvania. I do not consider myself much of a southerner.

[101 Proof]

24. Me: 21, male....

part German/Austrian/Norweigan/Native American. On my mom's side of the family, they are made of German and Austrian on her dad's side, French and Native American (Chippewa) on her mom's side. On my dad's side, they're all mostly Norweigan.

I've lived in Minnesota all my life, and most if not all my family are Christian in faith....Lutheran religion to be exact.

Interesting mix I have, eh?

[AlFrankenFan]

25. Let's see...

I'm female, my mother and her side of the family Jewish, my father and his side of the family Episcopalian and Catholic. I was born in Colorado, raised in Viginia, Colorado, and California most recently. I'm a mixed breed I tell ya, part German, part Hungarian, part Irish, and others.

[Rocinante]

26. Male

English, Scottish ancestry. I'm from Tn, and both of my parents' ancestors fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War.

[TheMightyFavog]

27. Let's see..

Irish, German, Austrian, a little Serbian, and a little bit od Jewish.

[Piperay]

28. Native Californian female WASP

half Norwegian, the other half a mix of English, Irish and Native American.

[shanti]

64. me too

native californian WASP, but i'm french, english, and a bit of dutch. :hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

29. English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish...

Ten generations in America in the male line, back to the mid-1600's. My most recent immigrant ancestors came to the US from Ireland in 1849 (along with so many other Irish who came here at the same time). Most of my various ancestors seem to've arrived before the Revolution, though.

[Rhiannon12866]

30. Female

My mother is Polish, my dad was of Irish-Dutch descent. The Irish side is recent, the Dutch were here in the 1600s. I guess that means I am 1/4 WASP, LOL! I am also the daughter of Freepers, who has seen the light. I am from New York, but wish I was from California. I visited San Diego a couple of years ago and envy you the wonderful weather.:hi:

[scottcsmith]

31. Pasty with mainly Eastern European heritage

My family traces its roots to Hungry and Scotland, but I've been told my features are more Hungarian than Scotish.

[Booberdawg]

32. Female, Italian/Irish

My paternal grandparents immigrated to the US from Italy and Ireland and married in the US. My name is Irish but we claim the Italian heritage most.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

96. At least by claiming Italian, you have better food!

the Irish Boil Everything!!!

[moz4prez]

33. Half yemeni and half mutt

insofar as everyone in my particular Indian subcaste is a mutt — so you have a lot of odd tributaries on your bloodline . . . slavic, anatolian, dravidian, pharisee, MONGOLIAN. genetic variation is a great thing. but it's also very complicated! We're sort of the indian nobility, so our history hasn't much to gloat about. (Wow! We owned a lot of property! and PEOPLE! we owned PEOPLE! It fills me with shame but I'm drunk and garrulous at the moment.)

at least my Yemeni side is guilt free. That's my mother's side, on which everyone was either nuts of consciously depraved.

both sides were fairly affluent and prominent in their day. that doesn't count for much here, though =\

[VOX]

34. Native Angelino Caucasian; dad was Texan, mom was born in Seattle...

They met at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica during WWII; my mom had a job finding housing for servicemen, and my dad was a captain in the Army Air Corps who tested planes off the line. They were both in failing marriages at the time, and they just had to be together. (Glad that they were!)

My dad's ancestors were Scottish (with some Huguenot thrown in) who came to South Carolina, then moved to Georgia and Mississippi, then to Texas after the Civil War. My mom's family was from Ohio -- English, Scottish and some "Pennsylvania Dutch." Reckon it all makes me your basic American Caucasian mutt.

Was baptized at Westwood Methodist, but my people weren't serious churchgoers.

I reflect on this with some sentiment, as with the death of my mom last year, 2004 is my first parent-less year on earth. I realize that some kids never even know their parents, but it just feels strange...

[RebelOne]

35. Female. English/Irish/Scottish

Born in Philadelphia, PA and grew up in Miami, Fla.

[jogi1969]

36. 100%

east indian male;
mom's side is from Calcutta -- now Kolkata
dad's side is from Madras -- now Chennai
uber-conservative -- but not the religo-wacko-fundi type found in
the US, more like asian conservative.

[MaineDem]

38. Granddaughter of Irish immigrants

All 4 of my g'parents came to New England from County Galway. I attended Catholic schools for 13 years and now consider myself a lapsed Catholic. However, I haven't given up on it completely.

I don't think there has been a Republican in my family yet unless you count the ones in Ireland. :)

[JohnKleeb]

72. 100% eh

The Keowns, my link to Ireland were from Galway too. I've never seen their pictures so I dont know this for sure but do you know if yours were the so called Black Irish, you know Spanish look Irish, I feel like I could be that because I tan pretty well and have a dark complexion, yeah I am only 25%, but my dad who is 50% does too.

[MaineDem]

85. I have dark hair and hazel eyes but...

very fair skin and I sunburn very easily. My mother has dark dark hair and pale blue eyes. I always wished I could have looked like that but none of us got the blue eyes.

[JohnKleeb]

87. I see

Well you seen my picture. I got dark hair with sky blue eyes. I think I got more of my Eastern European blood showing.

[MaineDem]

94. I still think of you whenever I see DK

It's going to take a while for that mental image to go away. :)

[Esurientes]

39. Scottish ancestry, Methodist religion

My father was a genealogy expert, and traced our family back to a group who were thrown out of Scotland in the late 1600s (I forget why). My parents were New Deal democrats and fans of Pete Seeger. My paternal grandparents were textile union organizers who were effectively thrown out of their hometown for being "socialists". Besides the almost-100% Scots, Dad found an Italian ancester who was one of Thos. Jefferson's servants (not certain in what capacity -- either stoneworker or vineyard worder, Dad thought).

[Kamika]

40. I'm 100% korean, and christian

Both my parents came here from South Korea so I'm as korean(american) as they come and I'm very proud of it. I'm a 21 yr old christian girl.

My parents are mega republicans but only cuz of religion.. they are actually quite bright and thinks fox is crap etc.. (altough they think most american news is crap).

I'm pretty conservative too and I'm probably as far right as you come in the democratic party :p

[Nomad559]

41. Mutt

Another mutt here - Irish / German / Native American.
Born an Atheist In Fresno Ca. & never changed my belief.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Lasso of Truth

I live In Fresno Ca, does that make me a freeper by proxy? :evilgrin:

[Dirty Hippie]

42. Southern

Mother's side sharecropers Father's, what used to be called "poor white trash." Both sides have been in the south so many generations we do not know what ethnic group we actually decended from.

[eyesroll]

43. Female, both parents Jewish, raised in Illinois

Ancestrally (is that a word?), I'm 1/8th British, 1/4 Polish, 5/8th Russian.

"Honky heeb." Heh. I like that.

[OldEurope]

44. Completely European female, but

some of my Hungarian ancestors must have been Huns...
45, small, baroque.

[vi5]

45. Half Italian, Half Polish atheist

with catholic roots (ie. my parents and everyone else in my family).

[supernova]

46. English/Scots/French

My father's family probably started life in the borderlands between England and Scotland. (According to the family name history anyway).

My mother's family came from the Alsace region.

There may be other things in there but we aren't aware of them...yet.

[Lost4words]

47. Whit male 49, Boston Father Atlanta Mother

English Irish. May be some black blood from the southern side, not confirmed, mother has dark complexion. If true is fine with me.

long time spouse is Jewish she grew up in upstate NY, family from Russia.

I grew up in Creve Coeur Missouri and escaped as soon as I could, Lived worked schooled on Eastern seaboard.

[SmileyBoy]

48. Half-Turkish, half-Finnish, and olive-skinned. Practicing Muslim.

I have a moustache that makes me stand out in the crowd here in "white-man's land" as a terrorist.:-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

49. Galician Spaniard (Celtic), born & raised in Brazil (nt)

[b-ballgurl]

50. hi

i'm half irish :beer: and half populistmom :nopity:

[LuLu550]

53. welcome to DU!

we're nice here!
:party:

[jimbo fett]

51. I'm a WASP pretty much.

[ewagner]

54. White male, middle aged

raised in Florida but have lived in Wisconsin for almost 30 years.

Married. One son in College.

Raised Missouri Synod Lutheran, changed to Episcopal, now dislike ANY form of structured religion.

Burned out on a public service career. In sales.

[kmla]

57. White, male, 41, a Methodist.

I'm so WASP-ish, I have a stinger attached to my butt.

Father was a UAW member, descended from German ancestry (I think). My Mom is part Dutch. Ethnicity has not played a huge role in our lives - we were pretty much a middle-American, middle class, middle of the Bell Curve family.

Norman Rockwellian, you might be inclined to say...

[Insider]

58. American Black Female, northeast, liberal

libra (wishing i was on a cusp right now), INFP, enneagram type 4, MOS 96B, Gaaaaaaaaay

[Skittles]

59. 50/50 English and Norwegian

my mum is still a Brit; my paternal grandparents were Norwegian. :)
I am a GI brat, no real home; raised in England and the US midwest.

[name not needed]

60. white male

live and go to school in nj
im chinese, italian, irish, and german.

[rasputin1952]

61. I am an idiot, coming from a long line of idiots...

Short bio:

Western European male: German/English/Dutch

Personal: Born in NY, Jamaica, Queens; vet, moved all over the place with Army. Finally got out at Ft Lewis, WA, lived in Seattle, Tacoma, Kent areas; moved to Kingman AZ; relocated to Norfolk, NE, (current).

A little overweight; seperated w/15 yo son living with me; IQ: 142; 5'10"; blue eyes; quit drinking over 13 years ago; great sense of humor, (but that really shines in personal contact vs writing). I am a practicing Christian of no particular denomination, (too much hate and hypocrisy in ANY organized religion these days).

Have spent most of my life fighting for the rights of anyone/group I feel is being oppressed, (I can be intense in this regard).

Have received numerous medals, citations, certificates; am devoid of fear; have a huge heart.

I make mistakes, but only once.

That's about it, just your average American Patriot on the Liberal/Progressive side.

Did I mention that I despise bush and this admin with a passion that borders on hellish proportions! :grr: :nuke:

Now I feel like I'm on some kind of "Singles Dating Site". Jeez


O8)

[OldEurope]

63. Your post explains a lot. But not, why ...

...you consider yourself an idiot.
:hi:

[rasputin1952]

67. OOPS, the idiot thing...

many in my lineage were/are Republicans. Sorry about that!

:bounce:

[maxanne]

62. I'm a pale woman

of Scots/Celt heritage.

I claim membership in the alcoholic tribe. :donut:

[DS1]

65. 58 Yr F Samoan Thrice Divorced Double Amputee

That about sums it up.

[populistmom]

66. Oh please!

No you're not! :eyes:

[DS1]

70. don't you roll your eyes at me!

*does a Mauri War Dance*

[SOteric]

99. I guess that if you're doing a Mauri War Dance...

your legs were not the two things that have been cut off.

:7

[Kathy in Cambridge]

71. LOL-Cut it Out!

you don't look Samoan at all...

[LWolf]

69. caucasian aries female

43 years old
born in the midwest to poor working class parents
raised in CA
still here.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

73. Female. Mostly Irish Catholic with some Norwegian, Welsh, and English

thrown in. Strawberry-blonde, blue-eyed, glow-in-the-dark skin. Urban, liberal, from Cambridge, MA (a right-winger's worst nightmare). I've lived my whole life in Cambridge aside from brief stints in NYC and Europe.

Enneagram 7 or 8, ENTP or ESTP, Pisces with Moon in Aries and Libra Rising. I guess the astrology explains why I have two scores on Myers-Briggs and Enneagram.

[randr]

74. Pure American

Russian, Polish, Irish, French, Native American

[indigo32]

76. 33 YO Lesbian

of 1/2 Norwegian 1/2 German/Scotch descent. Born in CA but raised here in the Midwest, taken to a nice liberal Lutheran church. I go to a Unitarian one now.

[NoPasaran]

77. Army Brat

Ukrainian on both sides.
Recovering catholic.

[Zuni]

78. Son of immigrants

My mother was born in a refugee camp after WWII. my grandparents were from the USSR. I am 1/4 Moscovite, 1/4 Don Cossack.(both considered Russian) On my dad's side I have German, Irish and estonian. his family has been in the country at least since the turn of the century.

[UrbScotty]

79. German/Polish male (nt)

[beawr]

80. Me, I'm

WASP (nearly all), French (one Great-Grandparent), Native American (another Great Grand Parent)

[curse10]

81. German/Irish/English

I'm a honky if there ever was one :-)

With Lutheran and Catholic roots- although I'm personally an atheist.

[leftofthedial]

82. Irish, German, Scottish

Born in the Great Southwest of America

male

[nini]

83. Female 3/4 German - 1/4 Portuguese - So. Cal my whole life

family first came to California it 1886.

I have a German build (tall) but Portuguese coloring and features.

[Rowdyboy]

86. Gay male, 50, liberal protestant...Roots go all over western Europe

(England/Ireland/Germany/Netherlands/France) immigrated to Massachusetts and Virginia in the 1600's Families intermarried and moved south to Georgia and then, in 1817, to Mississippi. We've been here ever since.

[Radical__Moderate]

88. I am a mix of Pict, Celt, Visagoth, and Thracian.

How far back are we suppose to go anyway?

[peterh]

89. Irish on my dad’s side…

Viking marauder, err, Norwegian on mom’s side

Born on a little Navy base in Astoria, Or. exactly nine months after nuptials….siblings followed in one year intervals in relation to “ship-in-port”.

[RandomKoolzip]

90. My father was directly descended from one of the founding fathers.

Lyman Hall, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. I'm a pure-bred American, with more claim to its heritage than most goddamn republicans!

Lyman Hall: He was English. Almost all of my family is purely English in heritage, although parts of my mother's side are German.

[ScreamingMeemie]

91. Irish/German/Norwegian...parents Catholic. Born in Wisconsin

and raised in Wisconsin/North Carolina/New York/Wisconsin/Michigan. Married to Irish/Cherokee Southern boy.

[Martin Eden]

92. 2nd generation Serbo-Croation male

46 years old and still playing in three softball leagues in suburban Chicago.

Besides politics and softball, I'm into woodworking, history, and backpacking -- in October I hiked to the top of Cold Mountain, North Carolina.

[GreenPartyVoter]

95. Euro-mutt

Norman and saxon English, Welsh, Scottish, Scots-Irish, German, Hungarian/Russian (no one really sure on which it is.)

But I look Hungarian with my chestnut hair, olive skin, and chocolate eyes. ;^)

[jpgray]

97. Male, mostly Scotch, some German and French in there somewhere (nt)

[NightTrain]

98. Third-generation Italian-American, 37 years old.

You'd never guess from looking at me that I'm of Italian descent, but I am, baby! Got some English, Irish, Lithuanian and German blood mixed in, as well, but who the hell cares? I'm Italian, and that's that!

[Jack_Dawson]

100. Norwegian, Portugese, German, English

34. M. H.

[The White Rose]

101. Male, English (Anglo Saxon/Guernsey Norman), adopted Californian.

Proud to be a minor member of such a wonderfully diverse and excellent online community. :-)

[Nikia]

102. American

All my great-great-great grandparents were born in the United States. Most of my ancestors were here before the American revolution. Of the ancestors we have traced, they have come from many different places and many different backgrounds. I don't like the term mutt. I am multiethnic. I don't know why anyone would think that being of "pure" blood would be better. Anyway, anyone who has been in a country as many generations as myself that freely interbreeds with the native population is usually considered to be of that ethnic group. That is why I call myself American.
As far as religion, my ancestors have been most Christian denominations, Jewish, Native American religions, and Pagan (One of my European female ancestors was a folk healer).
I was born and raised in Ohio and moved to Wisconsin for college.

[brainshrub]

104. 100% Belgian!

And yes, I do make a mean waffle.

[laura888]

105. Completely German

Both parents came from German immigrant communities in Texas.

[boilerbabe]

106. Mayflower Descendent on one side, French on the other,,n/t

[citizen snips]

107. Here at DU we are...

Democrats of all strides.

[LincolnMcGrath]

108. Human male

Parents human as well; Raised on planet Earth

[Andy_Stephenson]

109. I am a redheaded

[SiobhanClancy]

110. Irish on both sides,female,raised in Maine.........n/t