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Originally Posted by slowmover
Many, if not most, Americans of European ancestry are of either British or German stock...
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Yep, I read that a lot of the very early settlers came over as indentured servants. The deal was that they had to work for a period of time, 10 years maybe, and in return they got their transport and a section of land at the end. And owning a section of land then gave them access to other rights such as voting. This was contrasted with the approach in South America where the ruling classes wanted to keep the land for themselves and wanted the mass of their populations to stay at home.