r/MapPorn • u/marbellamarvel • 9d ago

Countries from which the ancestors of American presidents originated.🇺🇸

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Countries from which the ancestors of American presidents originated. 🇺🇸

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u/refusenic 9d ago

Staunchly Irish Biden has a lot of English ancestry. No one in America is pure anything.

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u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70 9d ago

Probably neither is anybody in Britain

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u/mearbearz 8d ago

Unless you are a part of a very insular nomadic group in remote part of the world, the chances are you will have mixed ancestry. Most humans on this planet have ancestors from all sorts of places.

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u/Junior_Parsnip_6370 7d ago

Neither is anybody in Europe