[PaulKersey]

>Every time you turn around,you bump into another dern Norseman

It's true. Amazing how 1% of the American population can be everywhere, yet so invisible. Does that mean we are part of the establishment? (Is it true that George Washingtons Mother was Norse?)

[Free Trapper]

Part of the establishment?Maybe,but American makes more sense to me.I'm mostly Welsh,Choctaw,Comanche;with other thrown in for good measure.Unless ancestry comes up I'm considered white,as are most of the people I know with Indian blood unless their appearance is overwhelmingly Indian.My wife is asked if she is Indian all the time(long dark hair),I never am,and she doesn't have a drop in her.Indians I know consider themselves Indian,not Native American,unless part of the PC crowd.We all fit together as one great Nation,except the few that believe they deserve special treatment.(Americans)don't stand out usually in a crowd of other Americans unless they do so on purpose.

[crystalk]

Norwegian-surnamed Americans are more numerous than 1% of the population. In fact, it is very close to 2% (1.93%)...It would appear that Swedes are higher still, some 2.25 to 2.5%.

I saw a little item last month that said that Norway has the same population as Jews in Israel, some 5.3 million, and the USA has the same number of Norwegian surnamed persons as is does Jews, some 5.6 million...

Denmark would add another 0.3% and Iceland some 0.1%.

[crystalk]

I show that the Washingtons were originally "Vessings-sons" and this supposedly refers to an ancestral home in Norway, as would be common for northeast Englanders.

[Free Trapper]

Paul!About a month ago my wife took me into town with her.You are NOT burning enough powder!Could anyone tell me how you make the neat blank space between paragraphs?I'm typecally?disfunctional.