Who Are Heritage Americans?
This is the SOUTH. We are the REAL Americans.
(Ragnar Lifthrasir) - In an era of mass immigration and demographic transformation, understanding who Heritage Americans are has never been more urgent. These descendants of the Founding Americans—Protestant, English-speaking, Northwestern Europeans who built the nation from Jamestown through Reconstruction—represent more than ancestry. They embody a distinct American ethnicity forged through centuries of frontier experience, constitutional development, and cultural synthesis. As America grapples with questions of identity and belonging, recognizing Heritage Americans as the foundational stock provides essential context for the future of our nation.
Heritage Americans are the descendants of the Founding Americans— Protestant, English-speaking, Northwestern Europeans, primarily English, who birthed the American nation, starting from Jamestown in 1607 to approximately the 1870s. This nearly three century period includes the discovery, settlement, and frontier expansion epochs of the United States.
The Founding American era wound down by the 1870s for two reasons. First, America transitioned from a frontier, developing nation into a fully modern, industrializing one, with mature, metropolitan areas and infrastructure from coast to coast.
The second reason is demographics; significant waves of immigrants who were not Protestant, English speaking, from northwestern Europe, and who did not assimilate with the Founding, ethnic Americans. As I will discuss later, they were and are “Hyphenated Americans” with dual foreign ethnic and…