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I find this map extremely dubious. I suspect that a scientific evaluation would show English to be the top ancestry in many or most of the places where "German" and "American" are the top stated ancestries, and in some of the others too. Because it is the least distinct ancestry from "American" (and in the PC world-view the least valued ancestry) it is seriously under-reported. CalJW 04:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

On the map, Solano County, California is the "African American" color, but the wiki page for Solano County, California says that at the last census the population was about 50% White, 15% African American, and 17.5% Hispanic/Latino. I live in adjacent Contra Costa County and I would have guessed about 10% African American from personal experience. This supports the dubiousness of this the whole map. -Anonymous

Actually I think the vast majority of us are half-breeds; English and German are the most common ethnic groups in this country, though they take up a much smaller chunk of the American ethnic pie than most people realize. The ambiguous "American" ancestory seems to be prevalent in my part of the country (South Appalachia); from my experience most of us are of English and Scotch-Irish ancestory, with a small amount of German. -Firestorm

But the English, aren't they German anyway? Seriously, DNA analysis has given the English a bit of a land, as it seems to show that the population south of the Thames (the most "English" part of England)is largely of aboriginal stock, while Anglo-Saxon stock only predominates in the midlands and the north. And what about, Claimed Ancestry v. DNA? How might that fit into the US map?--shtove 17:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

This map shows that Solano County, California is predominantly African American. This is at odds with Solano County, California#Demographics, which states that Solano County is 56.37% White and 14.91% Black or African American. Are the 56% white people divided among so many white ancestories (English, German, Italian, Irish) that African American beats them all? This seems unlikely. What might explain this apparent discepancy? -- Chris 04:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes that would be the cause. Rmhermen 16:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

It's important to remember that the data come from the Census Bureau, whose data comes from self-reporting. If it seems weird that the map identifies white Southerners as "American" but white Northerners as "German", "English", "Irish", "Italian", or what have you, it's because that's how the people are identifying themselves on census forms. This will also be the reason why African Americans are identified as the largest group in Solano County, California when they're less than 15% of the population there. (Something similar is true for my home county of Travis County, Texas: the map shows "Mexicans" to be the largest group, when only 28.20% of the population are "Hispanic or Latino of any race". User:Angr 08:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

For the most part. But take a look in Florida, Arkansas, and Texas...those states are in the South, but some of them identify themselves with their specific ancestral nation. Most Southern whites are descended from English settlers, anyway. --Stallions2010 22:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swedes

I don't see any swedes on this map. Where are they? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.134.146.52 (talk) 00:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC).