Buttigieg is the son of a first-generation immigrant from Malta and Jesuit seminarian turned secular pro-Marxist linguistics professor at Notre Dame, while his liberal mother was an Army brat who also was a linguist and professor at Notre Dame (and whose great-great-great-grandfather was a Jacksonian Democrat who owned slaves on native American-ceded land).<ref>Kyle Sammin (February 10, 2020). [https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/10/census-records-pete-buttigiegs-ancestor-owned-slaves-on-native-american-ceded-land] Census Records: Pete Buttigieg’s Ancestor Owned Slaves On Native American-Ceded Land, The Federalist. Retrieved Tue, 02/11/20.</ref> | Buttigieg is the son of a first-generation immigrant from Malta and Jesuit seminarian turned secular pro-Marxist linguistics professor at Notre Dame, while his liberal mother was an Army brat who also was a linguist and professor at Notre Dame (and whose great-great-great-grandfather was a Jacksonian Democrat who owned slaves on native American-ceded land).<ref>Kyle Sammin (February 10, 2020). [https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/10/census-records-pete-buttigiegs-ancestor-owned-slaves-on-native-american-ceded-land] Census Records: Pete Buttigieg’s Ancestor Owned Slaves On Native American-Ceded Land, The Federalist. Retrieved Tue, 02/11/20.</ref> |