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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (101474)	6/23/2013 9:21:30 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 218052

That census data reflects "self-reported" ancestry, so it under-represents the English. Many folks who can trace their ancestry back to very early days prefer to report their ancestry as "American" but these include lots of English, Scots, and Scots-Irish. Also keep in mind that German ancestry is a broad sweep, whereas the British Isles ancestry is divided up into English, Scottish, Irish (catholic), and Scots-Irish (protestant) for census purposes. Here is a table of the 15 largest ancestries, where you can see that the combined British Isles percentage is higher than the German percentage...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (101474)	6/23/2013 9:27:04 PM
From: bruiser98	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218052

The English themselves, the Anglo-Saxons, are Germanic.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (101474)	6/23/2013 9:40:41 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218052

BTW, this helps explain how those Teutonic cultural influences were propagated in the US... Turners en.wikipedia.org Turners (German: Turner), are members of German-American gymnastic clubs. A German gymnastic movement was started by Turnvater (turners' father) Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the early 19th century when Germany was occupied by Napoleon. The Turnvereine ("gymnastic unions") were not only athletic, but also political, reflecting their origin in similar "nationalistic gymnastic" organizations in Europe. The Turner movement in Germany was generally liberal in nature, and many Turners took part in the Revolution of 1848.[1] After its defeat, the movement was suppressed and many Turners left Germany, some emigrating to the United States. Several of these Forty-Eighters went on to become Civil War soldiers, the great majority in the Union Army, and American politicians. Besides serving as physical education, social, political and cultural organizations for German immigrants, Turners were also active in the American public education and the labor movements.[2][3][4] History in the USA The Turnvereine made an important contribution to the integration of German-Americans into their new home. The organizations continue to exist in areas of heavy German immigration, such as Iowa, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, New York City, and Los Angeles. Together with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States. They provided the bodyguard at his inauguration on March 4, 1861, and at his funeral in April, 1865. In the Camp Jackson Affair, a large force of German volunteers helped prevent Confederate forces from seizing the government arsenal in St. Louis just prior to the beginning of the war.[5] Bundesturnfest Milwaukee 1893