{"id":136255,"date":"2025-05-27T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136255\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:30:11","slug":"idahos-genetic-footprint-is-unchanged-from-the-pioneer-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136255\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho\u2019s Genetic Footprint is Unchanged from the Pioneer Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t drive on the wrong side of the road, and tea doesn\u2019t seem to be a popular drink, but Idahoans have a lot in common with the English.\u00a0 Unlike much of the northern tier of states, English is the most common ancestry cited by people living here.\u00a0 In the Northeast, it\u2019s often Irish and Italian.\u00a0 In the northern portion of the Midwest, German ancestry is commonly reported in census data.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re Surrounded by\u00a0Fritz and Wolfgang<\/p>\n<p>Idaho is somewhat of an outlier.\u00a0 Our neighbors east and west all identify more with Germany.\u00a0 Check out this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/articles\/2019-02-22\/here-are-the-most-common-ancestries-in-each-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> link<\/a>.\u00a0 Wyoming, Montana, Washington, and Oregon all have a desire to invade Poland!\u00a0 In three of those states, English is listed as the second most common ancestry.\u00a0 In Montana, it\u2019s Irish, a product of immigrants working in the mines.<\/p>\n<p>UNSPLASH!  Photo by Scott Evans on Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>UNSPLASH! Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@scottsweb?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Evans<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/brown-wooden-house-in-the-middle-of-the-forest-p9Su8r9lXTU?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>German is Idaho\u2019s second most common ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho retains an Early Mix<\/p>\n<p>Because much of southern Idaho was an extension of the LDS migration to Utah, the two states share a lot of DNA.\u00a0 The LDS Church was born in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, which in turn was settled by a lot of people who migrated west from the original New England colonies.<\/p>\n<p>Ancestry can change rapidly.\u00a0 The southwestern states are heavily Hispanic in ancestry.\u00a0 The Tidewater region on the Eastern Seaboard traces a large portion of its ancestry to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Change is Ahead<\/p>\n<p>As Idaho experiences new waves of newcomers, in another 20 years, the genetic makeup of the state may have changed.\u00a0 I think most of us expect the only constant in life to be change.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-100.png\" alt=\"News Radio 1310 KLIX logo\"\/>Man&#8230; English is hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Raedyn Vidal, Townsquare Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t drive on the wrong side of the road, and tea doesn\u2019t seem to be a popular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[3968,267,59642,388,59643,12,70,59644,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-136255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-genetics","10":"tag-idaho-news","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-magic-valley-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-twin-falls-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114580516467783939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}