Pope Leo Xiv was elected Thursday as the first ever leader of the Roman Catholic Church of America, whose lineage reflects the fulfilling relationship between his homeland and race and why the country has shown records as a genealogist, which is why the state’s figure lasts for a long time.

Robert Prevost, 69, is the newly cast pope, apparently born in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, a professional genealogist Chris Smothers cited to ABC News in a recent report, according to birth records. When Leo's grandfather Joseph Martinez obtained a marriage certificate in 1887 to marry future pope's grandmother Louise Baquié, he listed his birthplace as Haiti, at the same field as Santo Domingo.

Meanwhile, Baquay’s birth records show that she was born in Louisiana’s most prominent New Orleans city and was reportedly a parent who married at a local Catholic church.

Records from the 1900 census show that Joseph (apparently the son of Louisiana) and Louise live in a house in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, a fortress for the city’s Creoles. Later, the couple's house was demolished to make room for the highway overpass in the New Orleans suburbs with its globally famous French Quarter, a move that greatly reduced the area's population and economically destroyed the widespread black businesses there.

Those same census records identify Leo's grandparents as Black. His two aunts were equally identified, and he maintained the constitutionality of apartheid in the country just about four years after the case of Pleessy v. Ferguson, which originated in New Orleans.

By 1920, the Martinez family had moved north to Chicago and away from the racial oppression of the United States. The future pope's mother, Chicago-born Mildred Agnes Martinez, was eight years old at the time. The decade-old census listed the Martinez as white.

It was not until 1954 that the U.S. Supreme Court would issue a ruling that overturned the precedent of Plessy v Ferguson and was seen as unconstitutional in apartheid—even when it took many communities across the country years to decide the decision. Several genealogists believe that the Martinez may have strategically diverted racial identity to absorb Chicago, although the northern part of the north has its own history of discrimination and oppression based on skin color.

“You can understand (people may deliberately try to confuse their legacy,” Jari Honora, a family historian of the historic New Orleans collector, told the Associated Press. “It’s always been instability for people of color”.

Mildred Martinez eventually married Louis Marius Prevost. The librarian and her husband - a veteran and educator of World War II - raised three sons in Chicago. Robert, the youngest, was appointed pastor in 1982. Become the global leader of the Catholic religious order, known as the Augustine. Leading the Diocese of Peru; Francis was held by Pope Francis in September 2023; and leading the Vatican entity, responsible for selecting new bishops from around the world.

The United States registered a record 47.8 million immigrants in 2023, three-quarters of which are naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents or visa holders – all of whom support the country’s centuries-long history, metaphorical reputation as a melting pot.

This status was threatened when Donald Trump held his second presidency the following year - his administration held an immigration crackdown after returning to the Oval Office in January and marked with a stable news of sustained and deportation.

Leo's cardinal election He took over the late Francis after less than four months of Trump's second presidential election after he finished his two-day term. "I know he's not happy with the immigration situation," John Prevost, one of Leo's older brothers, a Chicago suburban resident and retired Catholic school principal, quickly told the New York Times.

Social media users quickly poured into what appears to be Leo accounts and pointed out how it showed a willingness to criticize government positions. An entry in the account republished an article about the Catholic Bishop of California that attributes “racism and nativism” to Trump’s use of the term “bad hombres” against certain Mexicans.

It is unclear how frustrated Leo is with the CEO of the global superpower he calls it, and other issues the pope faces. There is no indication that Leo has never publicly discussed his racial identity.

John Prevost told The Times that his brothers did not discuss their Louisiana roots. He also said his immediate family was not identified as black.

The Vatican press release said that the Leo father is of French and Italian descent. It says that the Pope's mother is of Spanish destiny.

In any case, Kim R Harris, a professor at Loyola Marymont University who teaches religious thoughts and practices of African Americans, told the Associated Press that she hopes the Pope of Leo “makes us like Americans, make us who we are, the people of the diaspora.”

"When I think of someone who brought much of the history of this country on his bones, it brought a whole new perspective and expanded the vision for all of us," Harris said.