Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: To all those who still want to pound on Warren for her family history that turned out to be legend-- [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)than Native American. DIL had her DNA done and got 15% "Native American". She was shocked with that since her Mom's family did not come to the US (NYC) until the 1950's. Taino Tribe of Puerto Rico. Same with a friend who came to the US from Australia as a little girl. 10% Native American? No,10% Indigenous Peoples of Australia.
Family stories? My Grandma used to say that her family originally migrated from Spain to Southern Italy. Never found anyone from there researching my family, but my DNA showed 3% range Iberian. My daughter got 5% range Iberian, but I got a higher percentage of Greek and Turkish (5 to 10% range) than she did. Never heard any family stories of Greek or Turkish ancestors, nor found anyone from there in my research, but Southern Italy is very close to Greece and Turkey.
It is not a PRECISE percentage. I tested with three different sites. Same countries on all of them, but the percentages were different. If Warren tested with multiple sites, she could/would get different percentages of Native/Indigenous Peoples.
Edit: I would not classify Spain as Hispanic. My DNA test results put it into European percentage. My DIL does consider her Puerto Rican heritage as Hispanic. True.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden