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American poet Ezra Pound, famous both for his poetry and his collaboration with the Italian Fascist government during WWII, belonged to haplogroup I1. He was descended from John Pound, an early settler of Piscataway, New Jersey, and his father Thomas Pound, who was born in London and died either...

Yes, a significant percentage of Americans who identify as "Irish" on their Census forms are Scots Irish who are actually of Scottish and English descent. This is obvious when we look at the breakdown across different parts of the U.S. Irish ancestry is claimed by large numbers of people in all...

This is true. According to the World bank, the per capita GDP of the UK in 2022 was $45,850 (US$). The per capita GDP in Mississippi during the same year was $47,189 according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and the US Census Bureau. There are the four American states with the lowest per...

The issues relating to infrastructure and government policy affect Americans of all races, but many of the metrics discussed in this post do indeed show sharp differences between different racial groups. This may be most striking when looking at the homicide rates. In 2022, the USA had a...

Different surveys give different results. The figures linked to in this post were drawn from the American Community Survey, a monthly survey that the Census Bureau has been conducting for (I think) about 20 years. The According to the 2020 Census, about 6.6 million Americans claimed Italian...

19th century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlett Letter, was another I2 carrier. He was descended from Thomas Hawthorne (1490-1557), who belonged to Haplogroup I2 based on the testing of three descendants at the Hawthorne DNA Project at FTDNA.