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The map that shows where America came from: ...the ancestry of EVERY county in the US
Daily Mail ^ | 09/01/2013 | Jessica Jerreat

Posted on 09/29/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Census data shows heritage of 317 million modern Americans Clusters show where immigrants from different nations chose to settle Largest ancestry grouping in the nation are of German descent with almost 50 million people

African American or Black is the second largest grouping with just over 40 million people Almost 20 million people claim to have 'American' ancestry for political reasons and because they are unsure of their family's genealogy

49,206,934 Germans

By far the largest ancestral group, stretching from coast to coast across 21st century America is German, with 49,206,934 people. The peak immigration for Germans was in the mid-19th century as thousands were driven from their homes by unemployment and unrest.

41,284,752 Black or African Americans The census map also identifies, Black or African-American as a term for citizens of the United States who have ancestry in Sub-Saharan Africa.The majority of African Americans are descended from slaves

35,523,082 Irish Another group who joined the great story of the United States were the Irish and the great famine of the 1840s sparked mass migration from Ireland.

31,789,483 Mexican And from 1990 to 2000, the number of people who claimed Mexican ancestry almost doubled in size to 31,789,483 people.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ancestry; countymap; ethnicgroups; ethnicitymap; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; map; statemap
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To: Sherman Logan

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”
“This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Address to the Knights of Columbus
New York City- October 12th, 1915


121 posted on 09/29/2013 2:55:57 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Works for me.


122 posted on 09/29/2013 3:04:07 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Pan_Yan
"White Guilt liberals who call themselves merely "American" because they think they are being noble not to acknowledge the ethnic origin of their forebearers."

Then why would those areas be all over the deep South?


Because southerners are no more racist than any other group of Americans in my opinion, and because of the stereotyping of racism leveled against southerners daily in the media, I surmise that most southerners would be motivated to demonstrate that they are not racist. Also, it was a traditionally Democrat region until recently.

123 posted on 09/29/2013 3:06:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Rusty0604

I LOVE this thread.


124 posted on 09/29/2013 3:19:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We the People sent you to DEFUND it, not defend or delay it!)
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To: TigersEye; Conservative4Ever

The section of the country they call American is mostly settled by scotch irish.


125 posted on 09/29/2013 3:20:49 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Pan_Yan

Maybe they are ashamed to admit that some of their ancestors moved to the south from the north.


126 posted on 09/29/2013 3:21:57 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: EternalVigilance

I love history and especially genealogy. Lots of interesting stories from FReepers on this thread and it looks as though maybe a few long lost relatives.


127 posted on 09/29/2013 3:24:49 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: ckilmer

Does that mean that Scots/Irish are more likely to identify themselves as American than by their ancestral heritage? I’m good with that being mostly Scots/Irish by blood and entirely American by birth. :-)


128 posted on 09/29/2013 3:26:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I just love finding out about my ancestors. if it had not been for my grandmother and great grandmother keeping the old Bibles I would never have known 6 family names! That led me on quite a journey!


129 posted on 09/29/2013 3:33:08 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: bored of education

See post 129. I want to see Scotland and Ireland one day...


130 posted on 09/29/2013 3:34:23 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: Rusty0604

“Almost 20 million people claim to have ‘American’ ancestry for political reasons and because they are unsure of their family’s genealogy”

That seemed wrong to me, too. It presents a false dichotomy. I think lots of Americans claim to be ethnically American because that was the tradition they had received in their family from the founding of the country.


131 posted on 09/29/2013 3:42:51 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: OldNewYork

Some people are adopted and/or have adopted parents so that would account for some.


132 posted on 09/29/2013 3:52:10 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: seeker41; MinuteGal

I’m of German, French and Irish heritage. I figure I can drink German beer, French wine, and Irish whiskey. All bases covered.


133 posted on 09/29/2013 4:08:01 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: nanetteclaret

Well—there you have it—LOL! I’m a red head, two of my daughters are red heads, and it goes back through the generations for us.


134 posted on 09/29/2013 4:10:26 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: basil

It’s the English in us. You probably have a very fair complexion, lots of freckles, and burn horribly. LOL! I still have freckles, even after all these years of trying to stay out of the sun.

I’ll try to look through my family history to see if we have any of your kin named.

I have a very interesting book, published in the 1940s, which features many of the homes of Virginia, particularly the ones of patriots located on the James River. (Ours is now a ruin.) Do you know the name of your ancestor’s home/estate? If so, I will look for it. Unfortunately, the index does not list the original owners, but the description of the property usually does.


135 posted on 09/29/2013 4:21:42 PM PDT by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed "Elderly Kooky Type" Catholic Texan)
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To: Rusty0604

I use to listen to the “old folks” talk about how we settled in Louisiana, by way of France, in the late 1500s. Now I am one of the old folks and I don’t know squat. I thought that maybe Jane Gallion could straighten out things.


136 posted on 09/29/2013 4:21:45 PM PDT by Rannug
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

Thanks Rusty0604.
By far the largest ancestral group, stretching from coast to coast across 21st century America is German, with 49,206,934 people. The peak immigration for Germans was in the mid-19th century as thousands were driven from their homes by unemployment and unrest.
By "unrest" is often meant the "kulturkampf", sandwiched between the Napoleonic Wars and the three quick wars Otto von Bismarck devised to reconstruct Germany and build his treaty system -- suffice to say, the transformation of the patchwork of German states into modern unified Germany was not all nice and neat.

Regardless, I resemble that remark -- some of my German ancestors arrived in the second half of the 19th century, the rest have been here over 300 years. I highly recommend genealogy as a hobby, and when it all shakes out, my guess is, about 20 percent of you are my cousins. :')

137 posted on 09/29/2013 4:47:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: bored of education

Mine seem to be from Randolph County NC and Spartanburg around 1714 and 1720. Showed up in Texas around 1892 or therebouts in Montague County. I was born in Texas as was my mother, dad was born in Kansas.


138 posted on 09/29/2013 4:53:40 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: seeker41

Western Maryland is lousy with Scots-Irish and Welsh immigrants yet that map shows nothing but Germans.

Feh.


139 posted on 09/29/2013 4:57:27 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: nanetteclaret
You probably have a very fair complexion, lots of freckles, and burn horribly.

I resemble that remark! :-)

140 posted on 09/29/2013 4:58:04 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We the People sent you to DEFUND it, not defend or delay it!)
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