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Since we're in white-nationalist-hypothetical-fantasy-land, why not PCA plots using already existing public genomic data by population? Wouldn't need any digging beyond DNA-testing potential entrants into United Whites of America (UWA), as it sounds like by the hypothetical this white nation would be carved out of the United States.
Nowadays, commercial DNA tests are cheap and contain way more than the precision needed to ascertain someone's white admixture. I doubt US white nationalists would make a hardline about excluding US South and East Asian Americans since there's large compass unity in treating US Asians as white-adjacent, and Asians are only 7% of the US population. Having a country to one-selves that excludes blacks, who are disproportionately net-tax consumers and perpetrators of violent crime (DESPITE... being 12% of the population, 56% and all) and furthermore, latinos (although less damaging on a per capita basis), would be a blessing for white and Asian Americans.
It's mainly West Asians in Europe, the "Pajeet Problem" in Canada, and some generalized Yellow Scare fear, that give white nationalists pause (and persons across the US political aisle pause, for South and East Asians are Acceptable Ethnic Targets [the TvTrope page for which has since been turned to just "Acceptable Targets”]), especially with the 3 billion plus South Asian and East Asian populations at a global scale.
Even a simple two part triangle test could take care of this. First, a triangle test for Central Europeans (CEU), West African (YRI), and Amerindian (AMR) DNA. If you're within, say, 40% of the European node (i.e., 60% white admixture), as defined by a radius or baseball field ranging from the CEU-YRI and the CEU-AMR edge, you're in. This would basically include all US South Asians, but likely leave a lot of US East Asians hanging, as global scale PCAs sometimes have East Asians and Amerindians lumped together. The second triangle test would be between Chinese from Beijing (CHB), YRI, and AMB. If you're within the 40% of the radius of the CHB node, you're in.
So it’d be a matter of political will, not genetics. Most Argentine Americans would make the cut, some Puerto Rican and Colombian Americans would, most Mexican and Central American-descendant would not. East Asian Americans and White-East Asian Hapas would make it in. Such an outcome could be called something like a 60% agreement (damn, I swore I had something for this).
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