File talk:Most common ancestries in the United States.svg

Incorporate plurality margin?[edit]

Doesn't this overstate what is often a small plurality? How about if we make the saturation of the coloring of a state depend on how large the plurality over the second most common ancestry is? --JWB (talk) 18:53, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"American majority"[edit]

I expected the states in red to mean a Native American "Indian" majority. What does this mean? Areas with the largest "American" ancestry populations were mostly settled by English, French, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. "American" is nowhere in that list, where's the justification for calling that "American"? Two of the nations on that list have their own color codes. Most if not all of the states have an American majority, if by that you don't mean Native. This makes no sense. -- AvatarMN (talk) 07:38, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

People living in the Appalachia seem inclined to say that they have American ancestry. These are not American Indians, but white people. 98.196.78.26 (talk) 04:55, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am also confused because I would assume that "American" refers to those with indigenous ties. How can a white person call themselves American and not a Black person, Latino, Asian etc...? We're all Americans (through immigration or slavery), but to me, American Indians are the only ones who apply to the "American" title since they have the indigenous background. A person of European ancestry would be German, Italian, French etc...not "American". Chic3z (talk) 17:44, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to suggest "Mixed European" as being a more accurate description for these states that "American". I have made no changes to the actual Wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.113.43 (talk) 17:01, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have to remember that these are self-reported ancestries. "American" is what the people filling out the forms call themselves. This is common among people who do not identify with their ancestral identity, considering themselves to be part of a new people forged by the formation of the United States. This attitude is most common among white people and the white people it is most common among are those from areas "mostly settled by English, French, Welsh, Scottish and Irish." --Khajidha (talk) 01:17, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong data[edit]

Hawaii is majority Japanese, not Filipino and Delaware is majority Irish, not African American. Who is going around modifying this? Until the 2010 census results, no changes should be made. 70.171.236.188 (talk) 21:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]