Ancestry

[nclib]

Does anyone know of a site that has ancestry percentages by state?

Also, is there a site with presidential voting by ancestry?

[CARLHAYDEN]

There was a book written about thirty years ago called "The Ethnic Factor," which examined the voting patterns of six ethnic groups.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

ARDA (IIRC it's www.arda.tm  could be wrong though) has some neat maps of religious groups and ethnic stuff by county

[patrick1]

Hey NCLIB, This site isn't exact but I found it interesting.  Especially to Atlas fans

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/usa_maps.html

[Huckleberry Finn]

Bumb!

The link what Patrick posted is damn interesting!

[Hitchabrut]

One of my pet peeves is Jewish not being recognized as an ethnic group, while Pennsylvania Dutch and French Canadian are.

[Ronald Reagan]

Why is there Pennsylvania Dutch in California?  Unless it is because of the great amout of people in California.

[??????????]

One of my pet peeves is Jewish not being recognized as an ethnic group, while Pennsylvania Dutch and French Canadian are.

Judiasm is a religion not an ethnic group.

[KEmperor]

One of my pet peeves is Jewish not being recognized as an ethnic group, while Pennsylvania Dutch and French Canadian are.

Judiasm is a religion not an ethnic group.

Indeed.  Would you call Baptists an ethnic group?

[??????????]

One of my pet peeves is Jewish not being recognized as an ethnic group, while Pennsylvania Dutch and French Canadian are.

Judiasm is a religion not an ethnic group.

Indeed.  Would you call Baptists an ethnic group?

LOL. Certainly not. Most Jews can't prove a direct line to those who originally came from Israel. In fact most Jews are eastern europeans or Russians.

[memphis]

We're still an ethnic group. We have our own customs and have remained largely unassimilated (for a variety of reasons).  Judiasm is more than a religion. It is a culture. My grandmother was born in Poland. She's definately not Polish by any means.

[Keystone Phil]

The site that Patrick posted shows a high amount of Italians in the most northern parts of Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. I wonder what that is about.

[CARLHAYDEN]

I think I can explain the italians ancestry in the UP.

Of the european immigrant waves, the italians were predominantly in the early twentieth century (primarily before WWI).

At that time the UP was a major source of iron ore.

Mining at the time was an occupation at which new immigrants not fluent in the English language and without financial assets could make a living.

[Joe Republic]

Apparently there's a group of Cajuns living in Southern California and Northern Maine.  That's odd.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Apparently there's a group of Cajuns living in Southern California and Northern Maine.  That's odd.

Can't explain Southern California, but Northern Maine is easy; they would seem to be Acadians that didn't go back to Canada (lot's in New Brunswick, btw) and didn't go south to Louisiana.

[ag]

We're still an ethnic group. We have our own customs and have remained largely unassimilated (for a variety of reasons).  Judiasm is more than a religion. It is a culture. My grandmother was born in Poland. She's definately not Polish by any means.

Well, Ashkenazic Jews form an ethnic group, for sure. But what are the common ethnic featuers uniting Michael Bloomberg, David Egulilashvili, Izak Benhabib and Santiago Alghazi (all real Jewish names)?  There are a number of ethnic groups sharing Jewish faith - Ashkenazim, Sefardim, Georgian Jews, Central-Asian (Bukhara) and Persian Jews, Yemenis and a few other well defined groups . Still, most American Jews are Ashkenazic (i.e., those with ancestry in Central and Eastern Europe, speaking until recently some variety of Yiddish). That is an ethnic group, no doubt, very distinct from the majority population of those countries.  But where do you find separate data on that group - who knows?