Get the conniption meds ready because many a white southerner may be getting ready to have one! <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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As it turns out, self-identified white people who live in the South have the highest concentrations of African DNA. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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