Thursday, February 27, 2014

Maps of European American ancestries

These maps show the population concentrations of national extractions in the US. You see the concentrations of Germans in the Midwest. Based on 2000 U.S. Census. (Sorry I can't find the key but dark red indicates higher density, then red, then orange, then yellow, then white).

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German ancestry:

File:German1346.gif

Compare to this map of Italian ancestry and you'll see high percentage of German ancestry all over the USA.

Italian Ancestry:

File:Italian1346.gif


RankAncestryNumberPercent of total
population
1German42,841,56915.2%
2Irish30,524,79910.8%
3African24,903,4128.8%
4English24,509,6928.7%
5American20,188,3057.2%
6Mexican18,382,2916.5%
7Italian15,638,3485.6%
8Polish8,977,2353.2%
9French8,309,6663.0%
10American Indian7,876,5682.8%
11Scottish4,890,5811.7%
12Dutch4,541,7701.6%
13Norwegian4,477,7251.6%
14Scotch-Irish4,319,2321.5%
15Chinese4,010,1141.4%

This one is even more revealing:


Plurality ancestry in each state, ranging from 11.8% (FL) to 43.9% (ND).     German      American      Mexican      Irish      African      Italian      English
     Japanese      Puerto Rican

This means, I believe, that the state is colored to indicate the largest national group. For most of the country it is German.

Source: Wikipedia

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