Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 6, 2019 8:39:15 GMT
Below is a map of self-reported ancestry by county in the 2010 US Census.
This map is interesting in how it maps to American regional identity. New England is British (mostly English as most of the New England Yankees came from East Anglia), Irish (Irish Americans are famously militantly proud of their identity), and French (from Acadia). The Northeastern Megopolis (New York, New Jersey) is inhabited by a plurality of Italians. Flyover country or the Midwest is inhabited mostly by Germans except by Upper Minnesota, Wisconson, Michigan, and North Dakota where Scandinavians dominate (this is why the Minnesota football team is called the Vikings). In the former Confederate States of America, the British (southern English and Scots Irish in our case are the British who historically settled here) dominate except in the areas where people just say they're "American" (which itself seems located around the heavily Scots Irish Appalachian mountains). The exceptions are the black belt of the deep south where African Americans hold a plurality (my county has a plurality of African Americans and is located in this region) and southern Louisiana in Acadiana and New Orleans where the French hold a plurality. The Southwestern borderlands are Mexican where the vast majority of Mexican immigration is concentrated, and the western coast reaching into Mormon country is mostly British. The Indian reservations, of course, have a plurality of Native Americans.
Anyways it's amazing to me how ancestry and ethnicity map to regional identity pretty well. Discuss if you want to. Which group dominates in your county?
This map is interesting in how it maps to American regional identity. New England is British (mostly English as most of the New England Yankees came from East Anglia), Irish (Irish Americans are famously militantly proud of their identity), and French (from Acadia). The Northeastern Megopolis (New York, New Jersey) is inhabited by a plurality of Italians. Flyover country or the Midwest is inhabited mostly by Germans except by Upper Minnesota, Wisconson, Michigan, and North Dakota where Scandinavians dominate (this is why the Minnesota football team is called the Vikings). In the former Confederate States of America, the British (southern English and Scots Irish in our case are the British who historically settled here) dominate except in the areas where people just say they're "American" (which itself seems located around the heavily Scots Irish Appalachian mountains). The exceptions are the black belt of the deep south where African Americans hold a plurality (my county has a plurality of African Americans and is located in this region) and southern Louisiana in Acadiana and New Orleans where the French hold a plurality. The Southwestern borderlands are Mexican where the vast majority of Mexican immigration is concentrated, and the western coast reaching into Mormon country is mostly British. The Indian reservations, of course, have a plurality of Native Americans.
Anyways it's amazing to me how ancestry and ethnicity map to regional identity pretty well. Discuss if you want to. Which group dominates in your county?
