I found this quiz on-line. My answers in italic. Yours?
An identity-classification system relevant to Whites in the USA, aiming not for 1492 but for more like 1892 (ca. 1870s to ca. 1920s):
Questions:
— (1.) Ethno-Identity: In the 1880s, what were your ancestors’ (1a.) ethnic identities, and (1b.) religious affiliations or identities (for 1b., maternal lines more important)?
1a. American. 1b. Brethren, No-Hellers, Quaker, Methodist, Presbyterian, Evangelical Lutheran. (Why is the maternal line more important? What does it matter?)
— (2.) Languages: In 1910, what language(s) were spoken by your ancestors who were nearest to being young-adults at the time (1910)? (2a.) What language did they speak at home? (2b.) What languages could they understand?
2. English. 2a. English. 2b. Aside from English? I don't know. What they studied in school I guess, probably Latin and French, maybe classical Greek.
— (3.) Cultural-political: In the 1880s to 1910s, what were the (3a.) political- or ideological-identities of your ancestors, wherever they were in the world? (3b.) In the USA, what political party did your ancestors tend to support before the 1960s?
3a. Um...Americanism? Pro silver? Pro gold? William Vaughn Moody anti-imperialists? Teddy Roosevelt imperialists? Prior to the Civil War, I know that at least some were Abolitionists. After it, some were Mugwumps who supported Grover Cleveland. 3b. Some were Taft Republicans and some were FDR Democrats. Some didn't care one way or the other.
— (4.) Economic/Class: What were your ancestors’ (4a.) economic areas of activity, and (4b.) economic classes, in: 1875? 1900? 1925? 1950?
4a. Ranching, farming, mining, soldiering, this and that, I guess. I don't know. 4b. Does America really have economic classes? Isn't that trying to impose British social structure on us? Anyway, some were doing pretty good and others were barely making it in each of those periods. But I'd say, by and large, ever upward.
— (5.) Geography / Length of U.S. nativity: Where were your ancestors, geographically, in the early 1880s?
America, beginning in the early 17th century, scattered hither and yon.
— (6.) Recent-formative: Where were your ancestors who were then-closest to being young-adults living in: 1925? 1950? 1975? 2000? 2025?
America, scattered hither and yon. Some were in California, some in Montana, some in Wyoming, some in Colorado, some in Texas, some in Pennsylvania, some in West Virginia, some in Maryland, some in New Hampshire, some in New York, some in....
No gol-durned furriners amonst 'em.
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