Anyway, nearly every White American* has at least some English ancestry
lol no we don't. That's the most ignorant comment ever. Not all white Americans are anglosaxons.
Most white Americans aren't WASPs of course, but most white Americans have some English ancestry unless they're part of a highly concentrated and recent diaspora community or some sort of group with heavy endogamy, which tbh is a pretty small percentage of white people. You almost certainly have some English or at least British Isles ancestry unless you fall in that camp!
I'm not sure whether I'm arguing for or against, but I'll add an anecdote.
For fun once, I traced the ancestry of one of my friends. His family has lived in the Dakotas for over a century, and every one of his lines came to the U.S. between 1865 and 1900. His ancestry splits neatly into 4 equal parts:
1. Germans from modern Ukraine
2. Germans from modern Moldova
3. Germans from actual Germany
4. Northern Ireland -- the surname was Kelly
