US states with highest ancestry from Europe

[packman]

[Clash City Rocker]

1. Should we know what the colors indicate?

[apcalc]

2. Why are states on there twice? What does that indicate?

[Skittles]

3. people emigrated to a state from more than one country?

[Wounded Bear]

15. Or people from one country emigrated to more than one US state?

[frazzled]

4. Twice as white?

[Iggo]

10. I think I'm getting it.

Let's start at the top left: Iceland. The USA state with the highest percentage of people of Icelandic ancestry is North Dakota.

Move over to Norway, same thing: North Dakota.

Move over one to Sweden, and the state with the most people of Swedish ancestry is Minnesota.

Move over one more to Finland, and it's Minnesota again.

And so on...

That's the way I'm seeing it, anyway.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Makes sense to me. The State of Maine was populated by French Canadiens. One of my grandfathers

was a French guy from Quebec. A French Hugonaut that converted to my Irish Grandmother's religion.

[SaintLouisBlues]

7. My many Bosnian neighbors representin'!

[niyad]

8. Where is the key to this weird map? And is it a specific reference to something? Context???

[teach1st]

9. Do you have a link to the source for this?

This is the only source I could find, and I couldn't see any sourcing in Senator Murphy's tweet nor in the replies:

Link to tweet

Here's another way of looking at ancestry in the U.S.: https://vividmaps.com/largest-ancestry-by-us-county/

[doc03]

12. African Americans are largest ancestry in the southeast red states? The white people in

in the south must vote 99% Republican to offset the AA vote? Look at Germans they are everywhere.

[wnylib]

16. Three main waves of Germans came to the US.

In colonial times, German Protestants came to the British colonies like the British did. Most settled in PA to become the PA Dutch (actually, Deutsch, meaning German). Many were Amish. There were so many German settlers that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were printed in both English and German.

Next were the homesteaders in the 1800s. The Homestead Act was open to immigrants. That's why there are so many Germans in the Midwest. The German side of my grandfather"s family came then and settled first in Missouri, then went to southern Ohio in the next generation. A later generation ended up in northwestern PA, going east while everyone else went west. And more Amish also came then.

The third large wave came in the very late 1800s and early 1900s with the big immigration wave through Ellis Island during the Industrial Revolution, along with Italians, Poles, and a smaller number of southeast Europeans. That wave settled in cities to work in factories. That's when my mother's parents came as very young children with their parents.

Another smaller wave came after WWII. Some were brides of American soldiers. Others were, alas, Nazis under assumed names, trying to escape prosecution. Still others were invited by the US to become anti communist spies in the newly formed CIA. A pox on our society, with their ultra right politics.

[doc03]

19. The origimal settlers here were the Quaker farmers that

ran the Underground Railraod. The map says Germans are the predominant ancestry. I would have guessed Polish, Hungarian, Chec and Italian. Myself I am English, Welsh, Irish, Scotch, NW Euopean and Baltic countries according to Ancestory. European Heinz 57.

[wnylib]

20. Just wondering if you are in the Philly area.

My home town is Erie. No dispute that William Penn and his Quakers started the PA colony. But, unlike the New England colonial governors, Penn welcomed everyone willing to live in PA peacefully. The Germantown area near Philly was huge. More Germans spread into the state beyond Philly.

Most Americans have an ethnically and/or racially mixed background, some more than they realize. I have not had a DNA test done yet, but so far, I know that my mother's family came to the US from the German Empire, so they identified as German but included Dutch and German on one side and Baltic Slavs and German on the other.

My father's family was more diverse. His father was German Swiss on one side and Native American on the other. (The German Swiss were the homesteaders that I mentioned in an earlier post.) My father's mother was British and Mohawk on one side and British and Seneca on the other. The British side includes English, Scots, and Welsh. Even farther back on the British sides are French and Spanish, but that's really far back.

[doc03]

21. No I am in eastern Ohio I am 60 miles west of Pittsburgh PA on the Ohio river. nt

[wnylib]

23. When my grandfather's family

moved from Missouri to southern Ohio, they went to a small town near Portsmouth. There was a very large number of German immigrants who settled on Ohio farmland. Quite a few of them were Amish.

[marmar]

22. "The white people in in the south must vote 99% Republican to offset the AA vote"

I think they more or less do.

[Maraya1969]

11. But to me it looks like Great Britain is in Utah. And New York is Russia?

I could have sworn NY welcomed hordes of people from Italy, England and Poland. But I've never been good at this stuff.

[wnylib]

13. RE: New York and Russia

Large influx of Russian Jews to NYC in late 1800s and early 1900s due to pogroms and being forced out of their villages, as in Fiddler on the Roof.

[Maraya1969]

14. Oh yea, I forgot about Jewish people! Thanks

[Fla Dem]

17. I'm really surprised at Utah having a high ancestry from Great Britain.

Higher than any of the original 13 colonies. Then Greece accounts for the highest rate of ancestry for Massachusetts. Growing up in Mass, and living there for almost 30years, not sure I met anyone with a Greek surname. Some other labeling raises questions too. Ceskemapy is a Czech Republic map company. Not sure how reliable they may be.

[Tommy Carcetti]

18. During my visit to Ukraine, I was struck how much the landscape reminded me of Pennysylvania.

So it only seems to logically follow that they would settle in a place that reminded them of home.

[MicaelS]

24. I knew many Germans came to Texas.

I had no idea that so many counties were thus populated.