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The common claim in the American South of having "Cherokee blood" in one's family is apparently often a euphemism for having a distant black ancestor. This would seem to suggest that Southerners historically had a much better opinion of Native Americans than blacks. Why would this be the case?

by /u/JosephvonEichendorff in /r/AskHistorians

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