Steve Sailer
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

Fortunately, we now have genomic analyses, such as from 23 and Me, to clear up the question of how white self-identified whites in the United States are. From the New York Times, for example:

The researchers found that European-Americans had genomes that were on average 98.6 percent European, .19 percent African, and .18 Native American”.

Of course, 98.6% white, 0.19% black, and 0.18% Indian only adds up to about 99%, so apparently there is some wiggle room in these numbers. But let’s just use the numbers as printed.

I don’t know which way the sample’s biases push this figure for whites, but in any case: whiteness in modern America turns out to be not very murky at all. These findings of 0.19% black and 0.18% American Indian are tiny numbers.

Think about your family tree back nine generations ago, which would mostly be in the 1700s. You have 512 slots in your family tree nine generations ago (two to the ninth power). The 23andMe numbers suggest that for the average white American, 1 of your 512 ancestors nine generations ago was black and 1 of 512 was Native American.

Here’s another way to think of it. If the average self-identified black is 73.2% black and the average self-identified white is 0.19% black, then the average self-identified black in America is 385 times blacker than the average self-identified white.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/science/23andme-genetic-ethnicity-study.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

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