The South is More Interracial Than You Thought

South is much more interracial than it thought

America has long been referred to as the great melting pot. Turns out that's especially true in the South.

A recent study by the American Journal of Human Genetics showed Southerners who identified as white have the highest concentrations of African DNA in the country.

Those numbers are especially high in South Carolina and Louisiana, where researchers found 20 percent of those who called themselves white had at least 2 percent African ancestry. In the rest of the South, including Alabama, that figure was around 10 percent.

The in-depth research was able to trace most of the ancestry back to a specific period of time in American history. It showed 19 percent of the ancestors of self-identified African-Americans were European males, compared to 5 percent of females and that the main point of mixture occurred about six generations ago. That would place it to the early 1800s, when slavery was legal.

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