Ethnic groups in America (1990)

[Nordhammer]

1990

Rank Ancestry Group Number Percent

Total Population 248,709,873 100.0

1 German 57,947,374 23.3
2 Irish 38,735,539 15.6
3 English 32,651,788 13.1
4 Afro American 23,777,098 9.6
5 Italian 14,664,550 5.9
6 American 12,395,999 5.0
7 Mexican 11,586,983 4.7
8 French 10,320,935 4.1
9 Polish 9,366,106 3.8
10 American Indian 8,708,220 3.5

From: U.S. Census, 1990 Detailed Ancestry Groups for States CPH-L-97.

Roughly speaking, by the top 10 ethnic groups, America was 60.8% Nordish (including Polish) in 1990. Meds (Italian and French) made up only 10%.

[Mac Seafraidh]

Why not complain about the African Americans being up there. This site is about European unity not a Nord vs. Med basis. The Mexicans are jumping the border everyday and you are comparing Nords vs. Meds. That is just creating more Nord vs. Med conflict that already exists on this site. I think the Nord vs. Med crap should end. I support both.

[cosmocreator]

Roughly speaking, America was 60.8% Nordish (including Polish) in 1990. Meds (Italian and French) made up only 10%.

I don't think it right to group all French and Italians as Med. Irish and Polish could be a bit Med too and what does "American" mean? And I think the Scots should be somewhere high on the list but they are not even on it.

[Evolved]

Roughly speaking, by the top 10 ethnic groups, America was 60.8% Nordish (including Polish) in 1990. Meds (Italian and French) made up only 10%.

That is very roughly speaking!

Most Americans reported German ancestry going by their surname or predominance of German surnames in the family tree regardless of whatever else they are mixed with. I would have reported myself as "Belgian" which isn't totally accurate. Those 10,320,935 French are maybe Cajuns and Canucks.

[Sigrun Christianson]

What a beautiful and prosperous country we would have if only the two top ethnic groups stayed and the rest hopped a boat back to their origins and oops! the boat sank.

[Frans_Jozef]

What a beautiful and prosperous country we would have if only the two top ethnic groups stayed and the rest hopped a boat back to their origins and oops! the boat sank.

Why should the boat sink and everyone dies from drowning, do you think it's a graceful death, watching someone choke to death, the lungs filling with water and gaping for breadth...either in open sea...or while in a coma in a hospital bed because the lungs are consumed by cancer and the body so weared dwon that it cant take the suffering anymore and collapses...

Just send them away, indeed, wish them a happy crossing and shrug the memory of them off your mind...

[Sigrun Christianson]

Why should the boat sink and everyone dies from drowning, do you think it's a graceful death, watching someone choke to death, the lungs filling with water and gaping for breadth...either in open sea...or while in a coma in a hospital bed because the lungs are consumed by cancer and the body so weared dwon that it cant take the suffering anymore and collapses...

Just send them away, indeed, wish them a happy crossing and shrug the memory of them off your mind...

Here's why:
4 Afro American 23,777,098 9.6
7 Mexican 11,586,983 4.7

[Gesta Bellica]

What a beautiful and prosperous country we would have if only the two top ethnic groups stayed and the rest hopped a boat back to their origins and oops! the boat sank.

For the native americans u should be on that boat as well..

[Sigrun Christianson]

For the native americans u should be on that boat as well..

I don't count them as people so no, we're fine.

[Gesta Bellica]

1990

Rank Ancestry Group Number Percent

Total Population 248,709,873 100.0

1 German 57,947,374 23.3
2 Irish 38,735,539 15.6
3 English 32,651,788 13.1
4 Afro American 23,777,098 9.6
5 Italian 14,664,550 5.9
6 American 12,395,999 5.0
7 Mexican 11,586,983 4.7
8 French 10,320,935 4.1
9 Polish 9,366,106 3.8
10 American Indian 8,708,220 3.5

From: U.S. Census, 1990 Detailed Ancestry Groups for States CPH-L-97.

Roughly speaking, by the top 10 ethnic groups, America was 60.8% Nordish (including Polish) in 1990. Meds (Italian and French) made up only 10%.

No doubt about it
even if it would have been interesting to compare the statistics about immigration also.
i am quite sue that a lot of people would easily fit in more than one ancestry group but the proportion between German, Irish and Italian are really similar to the immigration statistics that ive read few years ago in an American website