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Add White supremacy and White nationalism to see also section. 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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The term white was invented to distinguish European Americans from African American slaves.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/historical-foundations-race 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:28, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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French Canadians, Canadians, Pennsylvania German, Cajun, and Australians are the largest white other groups. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-dhc-a-white-population.html 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:30, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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The majority of Americans say the white population decline in America is neither good or bad.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/08/23/most-americans-say-the-declining-share-of-white-people-in-the-u-s-is-neither-good-nor-bad-for-society/ 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:34, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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Add Racism in the United States to see also section. 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:37, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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White Americans are aging out.
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Eastern European immigrants from Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, and Austria-Hungary arrived in America in the 1820s. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-introductiontosociology/chapter/white-ethnic-americans/ 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:40, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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The largest white MENA alone groups in America were Iranian (413,842), Lebanese (328,137) and Egyptian (313,720).
Source: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-dhc-a-white-population.html 193.187.88.196 (talk) 11:47, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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The wiki text below, is outdated, and doesn't match any of the census data, nor is it a valid metric as it is a voluntary community survey used by only 80 million people. This does not match the current US Census data. Here is the current data and link: English 12.5% (mixed ancestry white 19.8%) German 7.6% (19.1%) Irish 5.3% (16.4%) Italian 3.2% (7.1%) Polish 1.3% (3.7) French 0.8% (3.4%) Scottish 0.7% (3.6%) https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/detailed-race-ethnicities-2020-census.html
Below is the inaccurate data:
The most commonly reported ancestries of non-Hispanic White Americans include German (13%), Irish (10%), English (9%), Italian (6%), French (4%), Polish (3%), Scottish (3%), Scotch-Irish (2%), and Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Russian (each 1%), respectively.[1][2][3][4] AmericanDemographics (talk) 10:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "American FactFinder – Search". Archived from the original on February 11, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ Sharon R. Ennis; Ríos-Vargas, Merarys; Nora G. Albert (May 2011). "U.S. Census Bureau" (PDF). p. 14. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ^ "Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2007". U.S. Census American Community Survey. 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-02-11. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
"% change" column in table in the "Demographic information" section showing a wrong calculation
the "% change" column is not showing the change in percent from one ten year data point to the next. It's showing nominal change in the white population. who can fix this? skakEL 12:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
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