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This is incorrect. The most common ancestry in the US is in fact English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng
by master_crab 2y ago
This is incorrect. The most common ancestry in the US is in fact English.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans
- Retric 2y agoThat’s an artifact of the 2020 census. 2012: 50.7 million Americans identified as German. 2022: 41 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans
- oskarkk 2y agoI think that numbers relying on self-identification from census can also be far from the actual genetic makeup of the American population. But after some searching I couldn't find any comprehensive study that tried to trace today's Americans to different European ethnicities. And I'm not sure if this is possible anyways, given that Europeans were mixed in many ways.