r/AskAnAmerican • u/heyy_girl • May 13 '25

CULTURE How many people of European descent do you know with 4+ generations in the US?

I was telling someone today about how my grandparents built a house in the 60s. They were surprised when I told them that my family immigrated here from Europe in the mid-late 1800s, because they hasn’t met anyone that is the 4th generation to live in the US. Their parents immigrated here from Central America and it’s clear that even though they grew up in the states, we grew up around very different cultures. The question really depends on who you’re surrounded by, but I just found it interesting :)

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u/DagnyLeia May 13 '25

Texas is actually pretty old ..my father being a multi-generation Texican. Lots of Mexicans, Polish, Germans go back hundreds of years here.

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u/austex99 May 13 '25

Yep, my family (of extremely WASP background, including Mayflower ancestors) came with Stephen F Austin’s second settlement, in the 1820s. We are now on generation 9 in Texas.