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13. I too want to know what Americans are

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 09:46 AM

Sep 2013

at first I thought Native Americans until I saw the listing for them.

Ah found the article that's from. Some people commented that the large swath of "Americans" are likely Scots and Irish. The article notes these are people who claimed this for political reasons or due to not knowing their ethnicity. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408591/American-ethnicity-map-shows-melting-pot-ethnicities-make-USA-today.html

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The Map That Lincoln Used to See the Reach of Slavery [View all] coldmountain Sep 2013 OP

Interesting. thanks cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #1

Here's the chilling part coldmountain Sep 2013 #2

The War of Northern Aggression truebluegreen Sep 2013 #10

Look at this from the 2012 election nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #3

That is a fascinating map Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #4

This map explains the panic to gerrymander the South in particular... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #5

Very interesting JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #7

Who knew there were so many Germans? truebluegreen Sep 2013 #11

I too want to know what Americans are Veruca Salt Sep 2013 #13

That's not all that they don't know.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #16

"what are "Americans"?" Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #14

Want to know the real reason? McDiggy Sep 2013 #17

Uh huh. But everybody knew "those people" came from Africa. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #18

...? McDiggy Sep 2013 #19

There was a level of exclusion. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #20

Many of what you might call "Ulster Scots" are listed as Irish theHandpuppet Sep 2013 #23

I would bet that most of the Germans are really mixed hfojvt Sep 2013 #25

thats funny MFM008 Sep 2013 #27

You mean those that don't say, "American"? Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #28

Wow. BumRushDaShow Sep 2013 #6

And sold to the public 'for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers' HereSince1628 Sep 2013 #8

Fascinating. Thanks for posting this. theHandpuppet Sep 2013 #9

"The South vs. the South." Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #24

That is very cool. NCTraveler Sep 2013 #12

Thanks for posting that. MineralMan Sep 2013 #21

The Map itself: MineralMan Sep 2013 #22

wow that was interesting gopiscrap Sep 2013 #26

See how few counties there were in southern Florida KamaAina Sep 2013 #29

Boone County, MO 35%... Hayabusa Sep 2013 #30