Map of USA Displaying European Ancestry Groups

[Deleted member 18582]

 

[Latinus]

English ancestry being underestimated:

In the 1980 census, 49.6 million Americans claimed English ancestry. At 26.34%, this was the largest group amongst the 188 million people who reported at least one ancestry. In 2010, the American Community Survey enumerated Americans reporting English ancestry at 27.4 million, 9.0% of the U.S. population; in 2015, 24.8 million, 7.8% of the population. A decade thereafter, in 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau recorded 25.2 million Americans reporting full or partial English ancestry, about 7.7% of the U.S. population.[5][23][22] The decline in English identification in the 21st century may merely reflect further cultural assimilation of English Americans into the broader identity of White Americans, increasingly intermixed with other European Americans: the number of Americans who reported being solely of English ancestry alone steadily fell from 9,605,188 in 2010 to 8,992,416 in 2015 to 8,253,942 in 2020.[55][56][57] However, the number of Americans who reported being of English ancestry mixed with another ancestry fluctuated from 17,799,055 in 2010 down to 15,794,133 in 2015 up to 16,959,677 in 2020.

 

[Mr. President]

English ancestry being underestimated:

yes no ones to claim anglo because its so common but the majority of names come from the isle

 

[Deleted member 18582]

yes no ones to claim anglo because its so common but the majority of names come from the isle

Highest total number of immigrants over course of european settlement in usa are german

 

[Latinus]

yes no ones to claim anglo because its so common but the majority of names come from the isle

Yep, if an American dude has a German grandfather and the grandparents being Anglo-Americans of colonial stock, he'll probably identify with the former, because the later is the basic American ancestry and also distant/colonial, and people from the Americas usually don't identify with colonial European ancestry, whether English in the US, Spanish in Hispanic America, Portuguese in Brazil...

 

[Latinus]

I've seen tons of 23andme of white Americans and mostly are more British than German...

 

[Deleted member 18582]

Yep, if an American dude has a German grandfather and the grandparents being Anglo-Americans of colonial stock, he'll probably identify with the former, because the later is the basic American ancestry and also distant/colonial, and people from the Americas usually don't identify with colonial European ancestry, whether English in the US, Spanish in Hispanic America, Portuguese in Brazil...

Yeah most americans today dont know where their ancestry is from if its great grandparents or older usually

 

[Latinus]

Yeah most americans today dont know where their ancestry is from if its great grandparents or older usually

That's a common phenomenon in all the Americas, if you don't have recent foreign ancestry, they'll probably don't know where it's from, and act like they were 100% Americans: a.k.a their ancestors being in the Americas since always.

 

[Deleted member 18582]

I've seen tons of 23andme of white Americans and mostly are more British than German...

Is the takeaway here that there are a greater number of Americans of German than English descent?

 

[Latinus]

Is the takeaway here that there are a greater number of Americans of German than English descent?

No, Americans are more English. British Isles is the most common Euro ancestry in the US, German comes in second place.

 

[Deleted member 18582]

No, Americans are more English. British Isles is the most common Euro ancestry in the US, German comes in second place.

Sorry I mixed up German and English in that post.


Anyway, all statistics I have seen suggest there are more Americans of German descent than English descent.

 

[Deleted member 29786]

notice how india is not included in the chart

 

[Deleted member 18582]

Even though the majority of German americans in the USA emigrated later than their English counterparts, both are distant enough as to make failure of self-identification equally likely in both cases, or at most, negligible.

 

[Latinus]

notice how india is not included in the chart

Because India is not in Europe.

 

[Mr. President]

Sorry I mixed up German and English in that post.


Anyway, all statistics I have seen suggest there are more Americans of German descent than English descent.

This is most likely they identify with german more than english

 

[Deleted member 18582]

notice how india is not included in the chart

These are only showing European Countries

 

[Deleted member 18582]

This is most likely they identify with german more than english

The majority of German emigrants to the USA are before 1910. This makes them at most great or great great grandparents to people living today. I don't know anyone who identifies as German-American because their great or great great grandparents are from Germany. And many people don't have 4 sets of great grandparents, or 8 sets of great great grandparents, coming from the same country which would further complicate any hyphenated identification.


I think an exception to the tendency to self-identify here is Italian. They tended to band together and maintain cultural continuity and ethnic identity when they emigrated. In contrast to Germans, who generally tried to assimilate as quickly as possible. Especially during and after WW1

 

[Latinus]

Spanish ancestry in the US is an interesting case... because most of it doesn't come directly from Spain, but from Latin America, with the average Mexican-American in the Southwest being 60% Spanish on average, while many Cuban-Americans are 90%+ Spanish.

The USA didn't receive that many immigrants directly from Spain in the late XIX and early XX centuries, they prefered to emmigrate to Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil...

 

[Acne Victim]

these are self reported stats right?

 

[yeeyeeslayer]

That's a common phenomenon in all the Americas, if you don't have recent foreign ancestry, they'll probably don't know where it's from, and act like they were 100% Americans: a.k.a their ancestors being in the Americas since always.

not true most have some idea where their ancestors came from even the white americans with no recent foregin ancestry, but they usually won't know everything without a DNA test

 

[Latinus]

not true most have some idea where their ancestors came from even the white americans with no recent foregin ancestry, but they usually won't know everything without a DNA test

All the Americas = American continent.

At least in Latin America, if you're fully colonial, people will say: "I don't have foreign ancestry, I'm 100% Mexican/Brazilian/Argentinian..."

 

[yeeyeeslayer]

All the Americas = American continent.

At least in Latin America, if you're fully colonial, people will say: "I don't have foreign ancestry, I'm 100% Mexican/Brazilian/Argentinian..."

so someone saying im 100% brazilian means they're 100% portogeuese ancestry cuz that's the ethnic group which originally colonized brazil

 

[Latinus]

so someone saying im 100% brazilian means they're 100% portogeuese ancestry cuz that's the ethnic group which originally colonized brazil

No, because fully or partially colonial latinos are rarely fully European.

And the percentage of Portuguese ancestry in the fully colonial Brazilians vary by individuals and geographical origin, but most will score significant Portuguese, regardless of phenotype and geographical region.

 

[yeeyeeslayer]

No, because fully or partially colonial latinos are rarely fully European.

And the percentage of Portuguese ancestry in the fully colonial Brazilians vary by individuals and geographical origin, but most will score significant Portuguese, regardless of phenotype and geographical region.

are u a white american? If you what is ur ethnic breakdown just curious

 

[chadlife10]

now only in the South and middle America you have attractive white people. California is basically Hong Kong full of disgusting asians, New York is basically everything all ethnicities, and Miami is basically beaner land

 

[Latinus]

are u a white american? If you what is ur ethnic breakdown just curious

I'm actually Brazilian, of Portuguese and Italian ancestry.