Old Stock Americans: Difference between revisions

The '''Old Stock''' (also called '''Pioneer Stock''' or '''Colonial Stock''') is a colloquial name for [[Americans]] who are descended from the original settlers of the [[Thirteen Colonies]], especially ones who have inherited last names from that era ("Old Stock families"). Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly White Protestants from [[Northern Europe]] whose ancestors emigrated to [[British America]] in the 17th and the 18th centuries.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hirschman|first1=C.|title=Immigration and the American century|pmid=16463913|volume=42|issue=4|journal=Demography|pages=595–620|doi=10.1353/dem.2005.0031|year=2005|citeseerx=10.1.1.533.8964|s2cid=46298096}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Khan|first1=Razib|title=Don't count old stock Anglo-America out|url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dont-count-old-stock-anglo-america-out|publisher=Discover Magazine|access-date=July 14, 2016}}</ref><ref name="American Baptist Historical Society 1976 p. ">{{cite book | author=American Baptist Historical Society | title=Foundations | publisher=American Baptist Historical Society | issue=v. 19 | year=1976 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWvkAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-11-25 | page=}}</ref><ref name="Qualey 2020 m810">{{cite web | last=Qualey | first=Carlton | title=Ethnicity and History | publisher=MSL Academic Endeavors | date=Jan 31, 2020 | url=https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/ethnicity/chapter/ethnicity-and-history/ | access-date=Nov 25, 2023}}</ref>

In the 19th and 20th centuries some Old Stock Americans, primarily [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestants|English Protestants]], saw Catholics as a threat to traditional [[republicanism|American republican]] values, as they were loyal to a foreign [[papacy|pope]].<ref>David Brion Davis, "Some themes of counter-subversion: an analysis of anti-Masonic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Mormon literature." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 47.2 (1960): 205–224 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1891707 online].</ref><ref name="Olson Beal 2011 p. 187">{{cite book | last1=Olson | first1=J.S. | last2=Beal | first2=H.O. | title=The Ethnic Dimension in American History | publisher=Wiley | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-4443-5839-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SmFEG9n6hwC&pg=PA187 | access-date=2023-11-25 | page=187}}</ref><ref name="Humanities LibreTexts 2020 z557">{{cite web | title=2.3: Immigration, Ethnicity, and the "Nadir of Race Relations" | website=Humanities LibreTexts | date=2020-03-31 | url=https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/National_History/Book%3A_A_History_of_the_United_States_(1870-Present)/02%3A_Populism_and_Imperialism_18901900/2.03%3A_Immigration_Ethnicity_and_the_Nadir_of_Race_Relations | access-date=2023-11-25}}</ref><ref name="National Academies Press 2017 p. ">{{cite book | title=The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration | publisher=National Academies Press | publication-place=Washington, D.C. | date=Jun 13, 2017 | isbn=978-0-309-44445-3 | doi=10.17226/23550 | page= | hdl=10919/83151 | editor-last1=Blau | editor-last2=MacKie | editor-first1=Francine D. | editor-first2=Christopher }}</ref>

[[File:Hyphenated Americans Voting Cartoon 1899.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Cartoon from ''[[Puck (magazine)|Puck]]'', August 9, 1899 by [[J. S. Pughe]]. [[Uncle Sam]] sees hyphenated voters and asks, "Why should I let these freaks cast whole ballots when they are only half Americans?"]]

Until the second half of the 20th century, Old Stock Americans dominated American culture and politics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Oyangen|first1=K.|title=Immigrant Identities in the Rural Midwest, 1830–1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFkq3ewX81sC&q=%22old+stock+americans%22&pg=PA197|publisher=Iowa State University|access-date=July 13, 2016|isbn=9780549147114}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Lichtman|first1=Alan J.|title=Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KbGiJpDk6pwC&q=old+stock+dominated+american+politics&pg=PA19|publisher=Lexington Books|access-date=July 13, 2016|isbn=9780739101261|year=2000}}</ref>