And both claim a native-New Yorker's nose for bullshit.
First, the total number of "complete-couple households" that claimed a native ethnic as the head of household declined in Manchu, Miao, Tujia, Dong, Buyi, and Korea for six ethnic minorities.
Brown is in a unique situation He still has a chance to stake a claim as a native son that did well for the city.
He even tried to renounce whiteness, laying claim to a Native American ancestor: When a black couple startled him by saying they wanted a white priest to marry them, he said he told them, "I'm not white".
Like his fellow-Nebraskan Fred Astaire (Carson's family moved one state over when he was eight, and he is claimed as a native by both Cornhuskers and Hawkeyes), he cut a figure of supreme elegance.
Tarrytown, which sits high on a hill and has majestic views of the Hudson River, claims as a native son none other than Washington Irving, the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and other spooky tales.
Everyone wanted to claim him as a native son.
In the mid-60s Caro was regularly in the US, teaching and working at Bennington College, Vermont, alongside such painters as Jules Olitski, and he continued to maintain close contact with the US, so much so that American reference books claim him as a native.
By any stretch of the imagination, however, that does not give her the right to claim she is a Native American.
