Ancestry map

Using individual-level Census survey data, we found the most common self-identified ancestry in each US state and DC.

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America's most populous ancestry groups are Germans (16.4%), African American (12.2%), and Irish (11.8%), Mexican (10.1%), and English (9.0%).

Most North Americans are evidently White Americans, who are far detached from and no longer self-identify with their original ethnic ancestral roots.

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These maps show how America's ancestry and racial groups cluster in different parts of the country, based on Census data.

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