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Anonymous
"The Census Bureau accepted American as a unique ethnicity if it was given alone, with an ambiguous response, or with state names"
So those idiots in the South (aside from the african-american counties) are too dumb to know where their ancestors immigrated to the US from? Or maybe it's just a confederate tradition/cultural type thing to say you are "american" when asked where your ancestors are from? Whereas the rest of us know the question is asking where are ancestors immigrated to america from.
This proves that asking people is the least reliable method of gathering accurate data. :)
They also only coded the first two responses, so my ancestry would have been coded as german and irish, neglecting the english, french and spanish parts.
Also the data graphed this way is not very informative since some of those counties can have 4.9% irish, 4.9% english, 4.9% french, etc. and 5% german, and consequently be marked the color for german since there are .1% more than the other groups. Interesting to see the geographic trends of the largest ancestor groups even if "large" means 5% though.
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