The Ethnogenesis of Old Stock Americans Part 1: The term “Old Stock American” is a term used to describe white Americans of colonial 1600s-early 1800s stock, typically these white Americans are descended from the very earliest Northwestern European settlers of Eastern North America. They are mostly descended from the British Isles such as the English, Welsh, Scottish/Scots-Irish, and Irish. While minorities of often from non-British countries were Dutch, German, and French had a presence also. During the revolutionary war, the British promised to free black slaves and allied with native Americans which forced all whites settlers regardless of origin to come together as one fighting force as Americans. This shared struggle led to comradery amongst the different Germanic/Celtic Northwest European Protestant groups in America.

The Ethnogenesis of Old Stock Americans Part II: This shared struggle against Great Britain leading to independence of the American nation led to a newfound shared identity of a new people. These Anglos, Scots, Welsh, Germans, French, Dutch, and others intermixed creating a new race: The Old Stock American race. This new race united by a shared Northwest European Celto-Germanic or rather Anglo-Celtic WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) culture consisting of Protestant Christianity, Roman style Republican government based on the English common law, and the conquering Aryan pioneer spirit that would define America for most of its history. A proposed idea of the Great Seal of the United States was even going to feature this ethnogenisis reminding Americans of their northwestern European roots of England/Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Holland (Dutch/Netherlands), and Germany but was rejected. It is important we remind ourselves of the natives who founded this land and to reject any notion of “A nation of immigrants.”

"I am the forest, I am ancient. I treasure the stag, I treasure the deer. I shelter you from storm, I shelter you from snow. I resist the frost, I keep the source. I nurse the earth, I am always there. I build your house, I kindle your hearth. Therefore, you people, hold me dear!"

"Ich bin der Wald, Ich bin uralt. Ich hege den Hirsch, Ich hege das Reh. Ich schütz Euch vor Sturm, Ich schütz Euch vor Schnee. Ich wehre dem Frost, Ich wahre die Quelle. Ich hüte die Scholle, Bin immer zur Stelle. Ich bau Euch das Haus, Ich heiz Euch den Herd. Drum ihr Menschen, Haltet mich wert!"

- Taken from an innoscription found in a 17th century forester’s house in Lower Saxony, Germany