I know of the Heritage Foundation and their evil, I just thought he was specifically trying to paint himself as one of the "original whites" from the mayflower or some equally ignorant bullshit
there is a particular strain of dipshits who jerk off tracing their genealogy back to the 1700s and posture that it confers an authority onto them. sort of a genetic-alchemical mysticism, but for american racism. it struck me as that.