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I lived in US for over 10 years working in tech. What is “distinctively white/black names”??
by option 5y ago
I lived in US for over 10 years working in tech. What is “distinctively white/black names”??
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- david38 5y agoFor black - [Terrell, Malik , Tyrone ] + [Johnson, Jackson, Washington] For white - [Jack, Conner, Luke Scott] + [Anything Italian, Smith, James, Anything German, etc]
- mc32 5y agoI’ve known both white and black Tyrones, so that one is less clear cut.
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- jldugger 5y agoCheck out the table B2 in the appendix if you need examples. Basically: German (Schmidt, Stolzfus) => white, French (Francois, Pierre) or English (Witherspoon, Smalls) => black. Presumably this mapping comes from freedmen taking surnames from their former owners, and german settlers being relatively late to America, and chiefly in the northern states.