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A prime example of this is Nicole Persley from Nokesville, Va., who was stunned to discover that she is part African. As she recalls she was, “basically raised a Southern white girl,” and grew up in a rural home town, where she listened to country music and even made racist jokes about people of color.
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“At the DNA Discussion Project, an initiative at West Chester University in Pennsylvania that surveys people about their perceptions of their genetic makeup before and after DNA tests, 80 percent of the 3,000-odd people they have surveyed self-identify as white. Of those, two-thirds see themselves as of only one race, and they are more likely to be shocked and unhappy with unexpected African ancestry than those who identify as mixed or other races, according to a peer-reviewed paper conducted by the project.” – Washington Post