#melungeons
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #melungeons from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #melungeons
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 00:19 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 00:19 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 00:19 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 8 public posts (spanning ~34034 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (8)
Avg boosts / post: 1.4
Top of the latest posts
200 years ago in Tennessee, there was a mysterious group of people known to their neighbors as #Melungeons. Some said they were "friendly #Indians," others called them the N word. Many self-identified as #Portuguese. None had been slaves an
After a century of marriages to whites outside the Melungeon community, many began to "pass," despite efforts by Virginia to root out those with #Meluungeon heritage and remove them from white schools. Now, another 80 years on, Meluungeon d
The E half of the USA is dotted with places described as "tri-racial isolate communities". One of the largest such groups is found in E KY, WV, E TN, and western parts of VA. Widely known as "Melungeons", few Americans have been the subject
What “melungeons” means
WikipediaMelungeon is a reclaimed term historically applied to white individuals and families with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina who were primarily descended from early European and African interracial relationships.
“Melungeon” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#melungeons across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #melungeons straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/melungeons