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133 million European-diaspora Americans. 41% of total U.S. population (2017) [1] [a] (as opposed to 235.4 million Americans identifying as White in combination with other races and 204.3 million self-identifying as white) [2] 61.6% of the total U.S. population (2020) Regions with significant populations. Contiguous United States and Alaska.
European Americans: From Immigrants to Ethnics. Rudolph Vecoli. Rudolph J. Vecoli, Director, Center for Immigration Studies, University of Minnesota. This article will appear in a forthcoming publication of the National Council for Social Studies, which granted permission to have it printed. Ethnicity has exercised a persistent and pervasive ...
- Rudolph J. Vecoli
- 1972
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Sep 6, 2020 · By 1700, the population increased to 250,900; by 1800, to 5.3 million; and by 1900, to 75.9 million (American Chronology 2019 ). From 1607 until 1890, most immigrants to the United States came from Europe and essentially shared a common European culture. Britain’s American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as ...
- Larry D. Purnell, Eric A. Fenkl
- lpurnell@udel.edu
- 2019
European-Americans About 80 percent of Americans are descended from people of European ethnicity. The short summaries that follow present information on the population, distribution, migration History, and cultural persistence of thirty-seven European ethnic groups in the United States. Appended to some summaries are short lists of publications ...
Feb 15, 2021 · European Heritage. "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." - David McCullough. In many ways, the story of America is the story of movement—the unprecedented migration of people, ideas, and beliefs. The Statue of Liberty stands as perhaps the most iconic symbol of our nation ...
Diverse European experiences form a vital aspect of America’s rich and varied past. As the nation’s storyteller, the National Park Service is committed to preserving and interpreting all aspects of that history. When we explore where their stories converge with other populations—indigenous groups, immigrants from South America and Asia ...
European Americans, or Americans of European descent, are descendants of European settlers and immigrants. This term includes both people who descend from the first European settlers in the area of the present-day United States and people who descend from more recent European arrivals. Since the 17th century, European Americans have been the largest panethnic group in what are now the United ...
