This map from the 2000 Census colors each county according to which country most of its residents cite as their ancestry. What might be most surprising about this map is the predominance of light yellow in Appalachia; in those counties, more people say their ancestry is simply American than anything else. But this is a strikingly recent phenomenon: the number of people saying their ancestry was American nearly doubled from 1990 to 2000. It’s amazing that in a country that’s been around for more than 200 years — with many family lineages having lived in the New World for even longer — most people are still able to identify their ancestry based on the countries in which their families lived before they immigrated to the United States. via Vox Media, Inc
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:00:01 +0000
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