Get the conniption meds ready because many a white southerner may be getting ready to have one!

A new study published inThe AmericanJournal of Human Geneticshadresearchers using ancestry data that was compiled by 23and Me, a commercial genetic testing company,to measure the percentage of African ancestry of people who self-identified as white.

Got those meds ready?

As it turns out, self-identified white people who live in the South have the highest concentrations of African DNA.

In South Carolina and Louisiana the states shaded the darkest green on the mapbelow researchers found 2 percent African ancestry inoneout of every20 people who called themselves white. Add to this, in a lot of the South, about 10 percent of people who identified as white turned out to have African DNA.

Hold the phone!

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Hey White Southerners, Youre Blacker Than You Think: New Genetic Study