Minor point, Joe - primarily British ancestry. How do you know they were British? Surnames? Surnames are patrilineal remember and, frankly, we're all of us bloody mongrels (as the Aussies might say). We all know how snobbish folk can be, and the further 'up' the social scale that you go the longer the noses get to look down, if you see what I mean. ;-)

Nevertheless, if (I stress *if*) you're relying on surnames, what women married into your British line of royalty (oh yes, you do, yes you do have royalty, and upper class, the old moneyed families; just like everywhere else! ;-) )? Permit me to point out Old Kinderhook, your 8th President, Martin van Buren. Your first President born after secession ;-), your only president to speak English as a second language, until you elect Arnie (yes, I know you can't, but you could do worse & have, let's face it). Wasn't very British, was he?

Etcetera. Don't over-generalise... ;-)