What's your heritage/ancestry?
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From: West Philly, PA!
It's a long running joke since it's immaterial now. But "legally" Texas may still be an independent country as it's population never voted to join the Confederate States of America. And therefore wasn't technically in "revolt" to fall under the terms offered the Confederacy when it lost the civil war.
Doesn't really matter. We do enough weird chit most people would be willing to disown us if it weren't for the oil and the Cowboys
Doesn't really matter. We do enough weird chit most people would be willing to disown us if it weren't for the oil and the Cowboys
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It's a long running joke since it's immaterial now. But "legally" Texas may still be an independent country as it's population never voted to join the Confederate States of America. And therefore wasn't technically in "revolt" to fall under the terms offered the Confederacy when it lost the civil war.
Doesn't really matter. We do enough weird chit most people would be willing to disown us if it weren't for the oil and the Cowboys
Doesn't really matter. We do enough weird chit most people would be willing to disown us if it weren't for the oil and the Cowboys
Isn't junior Bush from Texas too?
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From: Bir Tawil
Texas was a country before the USA was and that is why it is the only state that can fly its state flag even with the US flag. It upsets others so it stays below with the rest.
My mom's side --grandfather-Rome Italy
--grandmother-Naples Italy
My father side--grandfather-born in US but his father Netherlands
--grandmother-Island Of Man
My ex-wife's --both sides grandparents Scottish
My kids-------all the above
My mom's side --grandfather-Rome Italy
--grandmother-Naples Italy
My father side--grandfather-born in US but his father Netherlands
--grandmother-Island Of Man
My ex-wife's --both sides grandparents Scottish
My kids-------all the above
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From: Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia
English/Welsh/Irish/French & found out recently that great, great grandmother may have been part aboriginal. My niece has been checking out the family ancestry & thinks this could be the case. They weren't exactly big on paper work back then & it was also the kind of thing that they kept quite about. Strange, as family where 1st fleeter's & we all most likely descended from stock that were transported here for some crime or other.
100% 1st generation Polish ( came to States when i was 14 ) as my sig indicates with the Polish flag. and if some of you wonder, yes i am United States Marine. oorah and semper fidelis to all the devil dogs out there. 
thats a good question.
i think, since you were born in the states, that makes you second generation even that you are 100% polish. if you look at it that way.
but some polish people that come here become citizens and renounce their polish citizenship, but that dont make them 2nd generation so it is debatable.
i think you would have to ask someone who knows about these things.
i think, since you were born in the states, that makes you second generation even that you are 100% polish. if you look at it that way.
but some polish people that come here become citizens and renounce their polish citizenship, but that dont make them 2nd generation so it is debatable.
i think you would have to ask someone who knows about these things.
