I remember watching a program on PBS that said a number of light skin blacks left the south after the Civil War and passed as white (usually Italian) or as/part Native American and married in white families. Also, back during the colonial era, when blacks and white
we're both indentured servent, some of them married each other legally and this could be another way that whites have black ancestry.
I think that some people like talking about/claim having N.A. ancestry because maybe it makes them feel more authentically American.
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