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Thread #45951   Message #680180
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Mar-02 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: American ancestry
Subject: RE: American ancestry
I always assumed the Anglo prefix in this kind of context was more linguistic than anything, as in Anglophonic (cf Francophonic).

If, as has been stated, "the largest ancestral group reported by US citizens on the census questionnaire is German followed by Irish, then English", doesn't that mean that German should be "the default assumption if people don't give any other sort of ancestry"?