Old Stock American is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwe
Cartoon from Puck, August 9, 1899 by J. S. Pughe. Uncle Sam sees hyphenated voters and asks, "Why should I let these freaks cast whole ballots when they are only half Americans?" The first five men are labeled Irish-American, German-American, French-American, Italian-American, and Hungarian-American.
The first self-governing document of Plymouth Colony. English Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
White Southerners, historically called White Confederates or Southrons, are European Americans from the Southern United States, originating from the various waves of Northwestern European immigration
Old Stock Americans
…White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) White Southerners Spanish-Portuguese Jews in the United States…
Fictional massacres depicted in An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War.
Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) by Thomas Gainsborough, a couple from the landed gentry, a marriage alliance between two local landowning families – one gentry, one trade. National Gallery, London.
First Baptist Church in Charleston, South Carolina
Elvis Presley, an icon of 20th century United States, was born into a Poor White family in Tupelo, Mississippi.