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Native American groups are fighting for official recognition of their holocaust, arguing that any apology to slaves must be paired with one to their own ancestors.
If Perot's message appealed to Yankee and Nordic progressives in the northern tier, his anti-establishment populism, and no doubt his flamboyant persona, appealed to the kind of voters whose ancestors had cheered on Huey P. Long and "Sockless Jerry" Simpson.
DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.
And whether or not our distant male ancestors often participated in actual "war," they probably fought other males and sometimes killed them.
The Census Bureau officially adopted the term "Hispanic" in 1970, applying it to any U.S. resident whose ancestors lived in Spain or a Spanish colony.