U.S. Geo-Ancestry

[Phatscotty]

Pretty cool, always thinkin of you guys!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... today.html

[thegreekdog]

That's a lot of Germans.

[Nobunaga]

No Poles? That's odd. If Poles had their own color, Cleveland would be solid (that color).

[warmonger1981]

Look at all those illegal aliens. Merica needs more Mericans. Mostly Nazis and Africants.

[2dimes]

The Polish folks are listed as other in Luzerne county.

[jonesthecurl]

What does "Amercian" mean in this context?

[notyou2]

No state with largest ethnicity Scottish????

[Serbia]

The problem with this whole thing is that it's based on how individuals identify themselves. That's how you get a bunch of Southerners calling themselves "American".

Bollocks.

[Dukasaur]

The problem with this whole thing is that it's based on how individuals identify themselves. That's how you get a bunch of Southerners calling themselves "American".

Bollocks.

It's legitimate. You don't see Englishmen saying "I'm a Saxon" or "I'm a Norman." After many generations have gone by, nobody really knows where all the roots of their family tree extend, and the distinctions are lost.

The southerners who just call themselves "American" are probably more accurate than the Wisconsin farm girls who call themselves "German" but don't know the difference between Wagner and Bach.

[oVo]

That's a lot of Germans.

There's a lot of sparsely populated Germanic territory.

[BigBallinStalin]

The problem with this whole thing is that it's based on how individuals identify themselves. That's how you get a bunch of Southerners calling themselves "American".

Bollocks.

[jonesthecurl]

The problem with this whole thing is that it's based on how individuals identify themselves. That's how you get a bunch of Southerners calling themselves "American".

Bollocks.

It's legitimate. You don't see Englishmen saying "I'm a Saxon" or "I'm a Norman." After many generations have gone by, nobody really knows where all the roots of their family tree extend, and the distinctions are lost.

The southerners who just call themselves "American" are probably more accurate than the Wisconsin farm girls who call themselves "German" but don't know the difference between Wagner and Bach.

My point exactly. How Irish are the Irish, and how American are the Americans? And aren't Mexicans from America?

[AAFitz]

What does "Amercian" mean in this context?

Just about exactly what the rest of the world thinks it means...

[Lootifer]

What does "Amercian" mean in this context?

I think I heard somewhere that 5th Generation is usually the cut off... but not sure, depends on the poll/census questions I guess?

[2dimes]

No state with largest ethnicity Scottish????

We all went to Canada.

[PLAYER57832]

No Poles? That's odd. If Poles had their own color, Cleveland would be solid (that color).

Yeah, Danes and a few others are omitted, too... something tells me they might all be combined into "German", partly because they tended to intermarry once they came here. Today, being German is fairly popular, but my grandfather was not promoted, at least partially because he was German. If you had asked folks 3 decades ago, they would have been more likely to pick out any other nationality than German. Today, those who are mixed (most Americans) are likely to just say "German"

[PLAYER57832]

Pretty cool, always thinkin of you guys!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... today.html

What is an "American" ?????

[PLAYER57832]

No state with largest ethnicity Scottish????

We all went to Canada.

LOL.. my high school history Teacher was born in Canada of Scottish parents who migrated to Canada and then to the US, because it was much easier to migrate from Scotland to Canada at that time, and then migrating from Canada to the US was not that hard.

So.. may be a tad bit of truth in that.

[The Bison King]

That's a lot of Germans.

There's a lot of sparsely populated Germanic territory.

Still a lot of Germans.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

That's a lot of Germans.

There's a lot of sparsely populated Germanic territory.

Still a lot of Germans.

And so the reticence of the U.S. to join in WWI and II becomes clear...

-TG