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    1. ItsJustForMyOwnKicks on

      Wow! So all those Welsh miners in PA and all the Welsh names around Philly were a ruse by wily northerners? I never knew.

    2. beefstewforyou on

      I left America in 2018 and I’m very glad I did. If an afterlife exists, I’m going to scream at my ancestors for moving there in the first place.

    3. Constant-Estate3065 on

      Do Pennsylvanians have an obsession with chippy teas and reasonable prices by any chance?

    4. TheMightyDendo on

      So people from Yorkshire and Cumbria went to Pennsylvania and the Midwest? Is there any trace of that remains today?

      And what is the red line showing?

    5. ContinuumGuy on

      I saw an article where somebody argued that many of the political differences, at least in the eastern states, can be traced back to the original migrants from the UK (and other successive waves from elsewhere, of course, but that there are lingering effects to this day).

    6. AcceptInevitability on

      This is a bit ahistoric. If it was pre revolutionary America then Scotland, and non-Northern Ireland should be shown as source and (what is now) Canadian colonies as destination

    7. So “migration routes from Britain to America” is a picture of Britain with arrows that say “to America”?

      How insightful

    8. My ancestors came from Cornwall to Wisconsin about 170 years ago. There’s a pretty big population of people in Wisconsin with British ancestry, more commonly Cornish.

    9. wellsleyfarmsoranges on

      If this is accurate then a lot of features of the source and destination locations make sense, even if some similarities (like for industrialization) would have only emerged after independence.

      -SE England to New England: “old money” in their own ways (see reply below), higher education, emphasis seafaring in regional history 

      -Northern England to Pennsylvania/Midwest: Working class industry and farming communities, higher than average organized labor participation (industrial similarity also developed after independence)

      -Southern Scotland/North of Ireland to Appalachia: Probably the most well known (at least stateside) with certain cultural features retained still today, though I’m not sure Scotland and the North of Ireland have the same unfortunate “it’s poor/druggy” connotation

      I’m not as familiar with SW England/Cornwall or Welsh connotations but for Virginia/Lowland South, at least from my US northeast perspective, I think they’re known for being culturally laid back, politically conservative outside NOVA, and having good food? I should know better since I have family down there but need to visit more; do any of those features like up with SW England, Cornwall, or Wales? 

    10. What’s crazy is that my mum (from London area) immigrated in 1986 to the US, and she also ended up in New England.

    11. No_Communication5538 on

      Almost complete BS. All these ‘sources and settlement’ of USA are based on self identification (not DNA or even rigorous genealogy). It’s just like people in Eastern England claiming to be Viking descendants – the DNA evidence shows it’s mostly BS.

    12. so people from the rest of ireland didn’t migrate to the US like the ones from northern ireland, way before northern ireland was even a thing?

    13. Glad to know us in Kent loved dreary weather so much we decided to settle in the exact same place but bigger

    14. 44stormsnow on

      I wonder what Canada’s patterns looked like.

      So the USA civil war was the English civil war 2

    15. Magmaflamefire2 on

      For the Scottish, they mainly settled in the Appalachian Mountains because it reminded them of home. Which was correct because technically the Scottish mountains and the Appalachian Mountains are connected I believe.

    16. random_observer_2011 on

      It’s a strong thesis with lots of support going back to works published in the 90s at least, but if nothing else, take it in aggregate.

      It doesn’t mean nobody from another British region showed up anywhere else.

    17. Traditional_Entry183 on

      My DNA test says that my ancestors from the UK came exactly from the spots marked to my area. Adds up.

    18. DraconPhoenix on

      So the Dixie people are celts? They aren’t even anglo saxon so WASP is false?

    19. Gigantopithecus1453 on

      Interestingly enough, the genetics of the American civil war maps near perfectly on to the English civil war. The northerners were the descendants of those who fought for the parliament in the English civil war, and the southerners the descendants of those who fought for the king

    20. UpbeatPhilosophySJ on

      Imagine the horror when I explained to a Scottish friend newly immigrated the US who the hillbillies came from.

    21. MayOrMayNotBePie on

      No wonder I can’t understand a damn thing the Appalachian ppl say

    22. Trousers_MacDougal on

      Where is this data from? This actually tracks for what I have found about in genealogical forums on my surname.

    23. Lebowski304 on

      This actually lines up really well with what I have learned about my ancestry. I’m Northern Ireland and south England according to my genes and those two regions in America are where my two main lineages come from

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