> This is a state where white people historically enslaved black people, where many of the white residents are descends of slave owners, and many of the black p

> This is a state where white people historically enslaved black people, where many of the white residents are descends of slave owners, and many of the black people are descendants of the enslaved. What does “many” mean? I would think that the vast majority of black people in this state are descendant of slaves while a minority of whites are descendant of slave owners because the slave owners were the upper class. Or else: since you have 32 great-great-great grandparents[1] I guess it gets exponentially more likely to be “descended from” someone the further back you go, but that doesn't seem to tell us much. [1] I guess these might not be 32 distinct individuals though due to distant inbreeding