White Americans, welcome to the club of being asked, 'Where are you really from?'

[Yonnie3]

5. They will need a "many of the above" box for me.

I've been told I have the proverbial wandering Jew, Russian, Welsh, English and who knows what else. Some ancestors from colonial times and some from just after the Civil War who didn't speak English well if at all. I don't know how I would answer. I also think it is none of the governments business.

The white supemacist's Euro-centric beliefs make the existence of data regarding subsets of whiteness troublesome.

"Still, this change is a good thing — especially for white Americans." I read the article at the Post and don't really accept the goodness/effectiveness of the opinion that "the census may begin to help break down our country’s persistent belief in whiteness as some monolithic norm."