My family would be mutigenerational voters, for sure, so I picked the “vote up a storm” option. Just to be clear, though, I did not vote for Sandi or Katrina.
Depends. My mom’s mother was born here, but she died when I was an infant. My grandfather remarried to a woman who came to the US from the Ukraine just after WW1. My step-grandma was the only grandma I ever remember, so using that view, no.
I could prove half of my grandparents- my mother’s side is very well documented. My father’s side, though… I’m not even sure how I could go about proving where his mother was born. I don’t even know what her name was, my father died years ago, and I’m not in touch with anyone on that side of the family.
What’s pur laine?
Pure laine translates to “Pure wool” which after a quick Google shows that it’s a French Canadian expression for someone who is pure French Canadian.
All four grandparents and all eight great-grandparents were born in the United States; I’m pretty sure at least half of my great-great-grandparents were born in Deutschland.
All 4 of my grandparents were born in the US. I found that out via ancestry.com. The interesting bit being that I had been told my paternal gps had come over from Germany, leaving behind a grown daughter. Now I am left wondering if I have even more cousins here (possibly Penn. or New York states since the gps lived there before moving to Minn.) or second cousins in Germany (if family lore was misremembered and it a great-aunt who stayed behind.)
Also found out that on my maternal side (the Native side) one of my g-gfathers was listed as on various Census as mulatto [white], as Black and was from Virginia. He married a Canadian First Nations woman (my tribe but possibly a different band… back then they still moved around seasonally and crossed the US/Canada border.)
My husband and sons would be able to vote as well since all of DHs grandparents were born in the US as well. I believe you would have to go back to his g-g on one side and his g-g-g to hit immigrants from Germany and Ireland.
Although at least three of my great-grandparents were born in Europe, my paternal grandparents were both born in Ohio, while mom’s parents were both native Marylanders. So I get to continue my streak of voting in every USA presidential election since 1980.
What about if your grandparents were both born in the US, but they went to the Congo to help the natives, so your mother was born in some African country that no longer exists (by that name), but her parents retained their citizenship (even though they never left Africa), but your mother moved back to the US?
Unlike most polls here the results are approximately representative, of the US at least, give or take Canadian responses. The overall US % is in the mid-high 50’s, like the poll answer as of now.
My grandparents were born in the US and family tradition at least says only one great grand parent was not, my mother’s grandmother. I’ve looked that up and it’s true, she came in 1867 as a 2 yr old, from England, though like all the rest of my known family tree her family was Irish. My father’s line goes back to Irish in the US earlier than 1830, but a somewhat famous great great uncle came in the 1840’s and it’s likely most of my g-g-g’s were likewise immigrants in the immediate wake of the Potato Famine.
Whoops - i was so focussed on trying to figure out how to post a poll that I forgot to do a spell check - sorry 'bout that!
Rick, the term pure laine comes up a lot in discussions of Quebec sovereignty issues: is the sovereignty movement one of ethnic identity (“pure laine”), or is it one of a society in general that does not have sufficient ties to the rest of Canada to justify staying in Canada?
The Parti Québécois has tried hard to argue that they are a social movement, not an ethnic one, because they know that the demographics mean they need to persuade allophones (i.e. - non-francophone, non-anglophone) voters to support them.
However, on the night of the last referendum in 1995, which the sovereignty side lost very narrowly, the Premier of Quebec blamed the loss on “money and the ethnic vote”. That one phrase undid much of the PQ’s outreach efforts, because the Premier seemed to be blaming non-pure laine Quebecers (and possibly the Jewish community in Quebec) as frustrating the national aspirations of “real” Québécois.
The Premier resigned the next day, but the damage was done.
All of my four grandparents were born here. My paternal grandmother’s father was born in Ireland. All the rest of my great-grandparents were born here. Much of our family is actually pre-Revolutionary War. Some revolutionaries; some Tories.
All GG grandparents US born, as well as 22/32 GGG grandparents. I just don’t know about the other 10 - maybe they were, maybe they weren’t. 2 lines go back to pre-revolution (but born on this continent), but, again, I just don’t know about the rest.
The only ancestor I know was born overseas is my 8G grandmother, in England, 1704.
I’d concur, I think 4G Australians of voting age who are 4G probably 25-30%.
On the PT account I could, my parents could as could my grandparents.
The kids can’t because although their maternal grand parents are 4G their mother arrived whilst they were on a grand cruise and hence is a Pom!
No vote for me, tho I have ancestors who settled here in 1630, and another who fought for the US at Bunker Hill. But since Grandma was born in the Netherlands back in 1900, I’m out.
No vote for my wife, either. Her Grandfather came from England.