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Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:10 pm to Sampson
did you write about this in your diary?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:12 pm to Sampson
There are FIVE categories for whites and ONE for blacks. So, no, I'm not surprised at all.
Terrible, terrible graph though... "American"??? are you kidding me?
Terrible, terrible graph though... "American"??? are you kidding me?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:13 pm to Navytiger74
Which is why I was surprised at the low British representation. My ancestors were British and I expected a similar theme here?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:13 pm to Navytiger74
quote:Because if it said "European" instead of breaking it down into countries, the entire map would be European. That's why the whole graph sucks. Well, the main reason at least.
And why Africa always gotta be a country to you people?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:14 pm to Navytiger74
Just explain it laymans terms
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:14 pm to Sampson
German in Alaska?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:14 pm to Sampson
my ancestors were americans
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:15 pm to TH03
It's a journal, not a diary and I don't make my entry until right before bed around 10-11.
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:16 pm to el Gaucho
I never knew you were from Kentucky?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:16 pm to Sampson
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Which is why I was surprised at the low British representation. My ancestors were British and I expected a similar theme here?
Blacks comprise 40% of Louisiana yet they are ALL lumped into ONE category. The 55% of whitesin Louisiana are dispersed into about FIVE ethnicities (English, German, Italian, French etc.)
That's the difference.
This post was edited on 1/26/15 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:18 pm to bayoubengals88
Ahhhhh. That seems a bit racist, considering both Europe and Africa are comprised of differet countries?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:19 pm to Sampson
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Are they just that dumb or are they more patriotic?
Just more American, they could be considered Scotch-Irish or Borderlanders and could consider themselves English but they hated those bastards and won a war and got their own country so they are thus Americans.
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:20 pm to Sampson
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Just explain it laymans terms
Majority means most in absolute terms. If six factions total a grouping of 100 guys, and my faction has 51 of those guys, we have a majority.
Plurality simply means most in relative terms (more than any other single faction concerned). If of the 100 guys I have 39, one faction has 21, one has 15, one has 10, one has 8, and one has 7, I have a plurality, but not a majority.
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:20 pm to OleWar
I fricking love them for it 
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:21 pm to bayoubengals88
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Blacks comprise 40% of Louisiana yet they are ALL lumped into ONE category. The 55% of whitesin Louisiana are dispersed into about FIVE ethnicities (English, German, Italian, French etc.) That's the difference.
Yes, this. Though I don't think blacks are quite 40% of Louisianans.
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:22 pm to Navytiger74
That approach is kind of skewed and unfair when trying to put together a map showing our country's ancestral history? Its crap.
This post was edited on 1/26/15 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:23 pm to bayoubengals88
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Because if it said "European" instead of breaking it down into countries, the entire map would be European.
Negative. Hawaii, California, and New Mexico would have other than European pluralities.
But I take your point.
This post was edited on 1/26/15 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:28 pm to Sampson
I remember I was a bit surprised to learn how big the German immigration to America was.
The Irish immigration, like later ones (Italian, Jewish, Puerto Rican) got the publicity b/c it was so huge in NYC. But the Germans had the national numbers.
In Alistair Cooke's classic book America (1972) he points out that we think of the US as being mostly English-descended, but outside the South it's no more than one of four people.
The Irish immigration, like later ones (Italian, Jewish, Puerto Rican) got the publicity b/c it was so huge in NYC. But the Germans had the national numbers.
In Alistair Cooke's classic book America (1972) he points out that we think of the US as being mostly English-descended, but outside the South it's no more than one of four people.
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:33 pm to Kafka
I was arguing with a person much smarter than me and they were claiming the prominence of German immigration here. I couldn't believe it when I looked it up. So inside the south there's a higher % of English ancestory? Have you read actually that book and is it worth reading?
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