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American demographics Anonymous
as it turns out, looks mostly nazi
>> 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.
>> Anonymous
>>267950
My father's side is French, my mother's side is Slovak. However, both of these origins are removed several generations. My dad and his family have few French cultural traits (however, there are strong traits for redheads and freckles) and my mother and her family aren't very Eastern European. Both sides of my family can be pretty "rednecky", though.

I know where my ancestors are from, but their migration happened so long ago that their traditions and language have been supplanted by a different culture. I inherited this culture from my parents, everyone around me shares it, and we all happen to live in a land colloquially known as America, so I'll leave it to your imagination to determine what it should be called.

Verbose troll is shit troll.
>> Anonymous
>>267870

didn't read the two long posts; looked boring.

But a question: are the "German" areas in the north/centre the most sparcely populated as well? Seems like the coastal areas have the most densely populated cities so the "mostly nazi" observation might be a little inaccurate.
>> Anonymous
I did not realize Puerto Rico had that many counties.
>> Anonymous
The best counties are Italian, English or French
>> Fat Joey
nobodies american or everybodys american
>> Anonymous
What if you have no idea what your ancestry is?

My dad was adopted and my mom's parents died when she was 5, leaving no known relatives. Her maiden name was, no shit, Smith. So that's all we have to go on.

Do they expect me to put down "AMERIKAN"? Fucking useless chartsengrafs.
>> Anonymous
Amerikkkans are so fucking retarded when it comes to stuff like this. I've known US fags claim that they're irish even though their last ancestor to actually live in Ireland died before the great potato famine...

If you parents were both born in the US and you were born in the US then you are a full blooded american. That's all there is too it. These fags trying to latch onto other cultures for whatever reason are just sad.
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>>268078
These people weren't asked, "what ethnicity are you?" They were asked where their ancestors came from. So it isn't "latching onto other cultures"

>>268077
yes. note the first comment quoting from the document. ambiguous answers were marked as "american"

>>267989
correct. population density is greater towards coasts and the eastern half. Check out the lights.

I'm from one of the few "other" counties. The Cuban one. :)
>> Anonymous
>>268078
QFT
I mean we all came from Africa at some point, so let's pin down exactly how far people can go back when claiming ancestry.

I would say consider your grandparents and parents, and maybe your great grandparents, but certainly not further back than that.

What's the obsession Americans have with this kind of thing anyhow? My grandparents have traced my family back pretty far and it's totally English, but if there happened to be a Swede in there I wouldn't go around saying I'm Swedish.

Not angry, just confused...
>> Anonymous
coz stupid polish and romainian and other lame countries call them self germans too...thats why
>> Anonymous
>>268097
Because we are all immigrants here. I guess you don't care about ancestry so much in sweden because the answer is almost always "sweden" :)

But here, for example, all of my friends were born in different countries. Asking where someone's family is from is a common thing to do because the answer is often interesting.
>> Anonymous
>>268105
Congrats at failing reading comprehension.

PS: The US is the only country ever to have been heavily influenced by mass immigration...
>> Anonymous
australia is also heavily influenced by immigration..
since our entire population including natives immigrated here
>> Anonymous
>>268104
Wow, no, dumbfuck.
Polish are slavs and Romanian are balcanic.
>> Anonymous
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This fucking disgusts me.
>> Anonymous
>>268729
Uh, which Poles? Some are German.

Just like the Flemish are "German" ethnically, but are from the "German" part of what is now Belgium.

Considering Germany didn't exist several hundred years ago, it's sorta hard to categorize this way...

Also what about this scenario:
Ancestors are German, move to Russia. When the Revolution comes, move to America.
Are they Russian? Or German? Or what?
(imo, ethnically German, some Russian roots, effectively American)
>> Anonymous
wait what

florida is full or germans ?!?!

i find this hard to belive
>> Anonymous
>>267870
mostly nazi ... well entirely all these have gone to america before even the first worldwar.. so in ur eyes all germans are nazies? think before writing shit...
>> Anonymous
>>268807
Welcome to the internets.