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European Americans (also known as Euro-Americans) are Americans with ancestry from Europe.

The Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States. Martín de Argüelles born 1566, St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, was the first known person of European descent born in what is now the United States. Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare, born in 1587 on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents. In the 2014 American Community Survey, German Americans (14.4%), Irish Americans (10.4%), English Americans (7.6%) and Italian Americans (5.4%) were the four largest self-reported European ancestry groups in the United States forming 37.8% of the total population. However, the English-Americans and British-Americans demography is considered a serious under-count as the stock tend to self-report and identify as simply 'Americans' due to the length of time they have inhabited America.

European Americans are included in the category of "White". "White" is defined by the United States Census Bureau as "a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". According to the US Census, European Americans are a subset of White Americans. The term "Non-Hispanic White" is often used as a proxy for European Americans, although that also includes a small fraction of peoples of Middle Eastern descent.

Terminology

Use

In 1995, as part of a review of the Office of Management and Budget's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting), a survey was conducted of census recipients to determine their preferred terminology for the racial/ethnic groups defined in the Directive. For the 'White' group, 'European American' came third, preferred by 2.35% of panel interviewees.

The term is used interchangeably with Caucasian American, White American, and Anglo American in many places around the United States.

Also, whereas the terms White American and Caucasian American carry somewhat ambiguous definitions, depending on the speaker, European American has a more specific definition and scope. According to linguist Janet Bing, the term "European American" has increased a little in use, especially among scholars.

Origin

The term is used by some to emphasize the European cultural and geographical ancestral origins of Americans, in the same way as is done for African Americans and Asian Americans. A European American awareness is still notable because 90% of the respondents classified as white in the U.S. Census knew their European ancestry. Historically, the concept of an American originated in the United States as a person of European ancestry, thus excluding African Americans and Native Americans.

As a linguistic concern, the term is sometimes meant to discourage a dichotomous view of the racial landscape between the white category and everyone else. Margo Adair suggests that the recognition of specific European American ancestries allows certain Americans to become aware that they come from a variety of different cultures.

History

Since 1607, some 57 million immigrants have come to the United States from other lands. Approximately 10 million passed through on their way to some other place or returned to their original homelands, leaving a net gain of some 47 million people. Prior to 1960, the overwhelming majority came from Europe or European descent from Canada. In 1960 for example, 75.0% of foreign-born population in the United States came from the region of Europe.

Before 1881, the vast majority of immigrants, almost 86% of the total, arrived from northwest Europe, principally Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. The years between 1881 and 1893 the pattern shifted, in the sources of U.S. "New immigration". Between 1894 and 1914, immigrants from southern, central, and eastern Europe accounted for 69% of the total.

Colonial

Colonial stock (see Old Stock Americans), which mostly consists of people of English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Cornish or Welsh descent, may be found throughout the country but is especially dominant in New England and the South. Some people of colonial stock, especially in the Mid-Atlantic states, are also of Dutch, German and Flemish descent. The vast majority of these are Protestants. The Pennsylvania Dutch (German American) population gave the state of Pennsylvania a high German cultural character. French descent, which can also be found throughout the country, is most concentrated in Louisiana, while Spanish descent is dominant in the Southwest and Florida. These are primarily Roman Catholic and were assimilated with the Louisiana Purchase and the aftermath of the Mexican–American War and Adams–Onís Treaty, respectively.

The first large wave of European migration after the Revolutionary War came from Northern and Central-Western Europe between about 1820 and 1890. Most of these immigrants were from Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Britain, and with large numbers of Irish and German Catholics immigrating, Roman Catholicism became an important minority religion. Polish Americans usually used to come as German or Austrian citizens, since Poland lost its independence in the period between 1772–1795. Descendants of the first wave are dominant in the Midwest and West, although German descent is extremely common in Pennsylvania, and Irish descent is also common in urban centers in the Northeast. The Irish and Germans held onto their ethnic identity throughout the 19th and early half of the 20th centuries, as well of other European ethnic groups. Most people of Polish origin live in the Northeast and the Midwest (see also White ethnic).

Second wave

The second wave of European Americans arrived from the mid-1890s to the 1920s, mainly from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Ireland. This wave included Irish, Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Portuguese, Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Poles and other Slavs. With large numbers of immigrants from Spain, Mexico, Spanish Caribbean, and South and Central America, White Hispanics have increased to 8% of the US population, and Texas, California, New York, and Florida are important centers for them. Template:European American map

Clickable map of Europe, showing one of the most commonly used continental boundaries
Key: black: states which straddle the border between Europe and Asia; green: states not geographically in Europe, but closely associated with the continent

Immigration since 1820

Demographics

The top countries of origin for European immigrants (2010)
Country			Percent
United Kingdom			14.0%
Germany			13.0%
Poland			10.0%
Russia			8.0%
Italy			8.0%
Ukraine			7.0%
Portugal			5.0%
Rest of Europe			35.0%

At the 2010 Census there were 223,553,265 "White Americans", which includes 26.7 million White Hispanic and Latino Americans. That is, there are 196.8 million "Non-Hispanic Whites" (63.7% of the total population) and 26,735,713 "Hispanic Whites" (8.7% of the population). The two groups collectively form the census category of "White Americans", a group consisting mostly of those of European ancestry, though people of Middle Eastern and North African ancestry are also classified as white by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The numbers below give numbers of European Americans as measured by the U.S. Census in 1980, 1990, and 2000. The numbers are measured according to declarations in census responses. This leads to uncertainty over the real meaning of the figures: For instance, as can be seen, according to these figures, the European American population dropped 40 million in ten years, but in fact this is a reflection of changing census responses. In particular, it reflects the increased popularity of the 'American' option following its inclusion as an example in the 2000 census forms.

It is important to note that breakdowns of the European American population into sub-components is a difficult and rather arbitrary exercise. Farley (1991) argues that "because of ethnic intermarriage, the numerous generations that separate respondents from their forebears and the apparent unimportance to many whites of European origin, responses appear quite inconsistent".

In particular, a large majority of European Americans have ancestry from a number of different countries and the response to a single 'ancestry' gives little indication of the backgrounds of Americans today. When only prompted for a single response, the examples given on the census forms and a pride in identifying the more distinctive parts of one's heritage are important factors; these will likely adversely affect the numbers reporting ancestries from the British Isles. Multiple response ancestry data often greatly increase the numbers reporting for the main ancestry groups, although Farley goes as far to conclude that "no simple question will distinguish those who identify strongly with a specific European group from those who report symbolic or imagined ethnicity." He highlights responses in the Current Population Survey (1973) where for the main 'old' ancestry groups (e.g., German, Irish, English, and French), over 40% change their reported ancestry over the six-month period between survey waves (page 422).

An important example to note is that in 1980 23.75 million Americans claimed English ancestry and 25.85 claimed English ancestry together with one or more other. This represents 49.6 million people. The table below shows that in 1990 when only single and primary responses were allowed this fell to 32 million and in 2000 to 24 million.

The largest self-reported ancestries in 2000, reporting over 5 million members, were in order: German, Irish, English, American, Italian, French, and Polish. They have different distributions within the United States; in general, the northern half of the United States from Pennsylvania westward is dominated by German ancestry, and the southern half by English and American. Irish may be found throughout the entire country.

Italian ancestry is most common in the Northeast, Polish in the Great Lakes Region, and French in New England and Louisiana. U.S. Census Bureau statisticians estimate that approximately 62 percent of European Americans today are either wholly or partly of English, Welsh, Irish, or Scottish ancestry. Approximately 86% of European Americans today are of northwestern and central European ancestry, and 14% are of southeastern European and White Hispanic and Latino American descent.

Culture

Cultural roots

The culture of the Americans of European descent, European-American culture, is the culture of the United States. As the largest component of the American population, the overall American culture deeply reflects the European-influenced culture that predates the United States of America as an independent state. Much of American culture shows influences from the diverse nations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, such as the English, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Scots Irish and Welsh. Colonial ties to Great Britain spread the English language, legal system and other cultural attributes. Scholar David Hackett Fischer asserts in Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America that the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of the United Kingdom to the United States persisted and provide a substantial cultural basis for much of the modern United States. Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture."

Much of the European-American cultural lineage can be traced back to Western and Northern Europe, which is institutionalized in the government, traditions, and civic education in the United States. Since most later European Americans have assimilated into American culture, most European Americans now generally express their individual ethnic ties sporadically and symbolically and do not consider their specific ethnic origins to be essential to their identity; however, European American ethnic expression has been revived since the 1960s. Southern Europeans, specifically Italian and Greeks (see Greek American), have maintained high levels of ethnic identity. Same applied to Polish Americans. In the 1960s, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, and African Americans started exploring their cultural traditions as the ideal of cultural pluralism took hold. European Americans followed suit by exploring their individual cultural origins and having less shame of expressing their unique cultural heritage.

The Solutrean hypothesis suggested that Europeans may have been among the first in the Americas. More recent research has argued this not to be the case and that the founding Native American population came from Siberia through Beringia. An article in the American Journal of Human Genetics states "Here we show, by using 86 complete mitochondrial genomes, that all Native American haplogroups, including haplogroup X, were part of a single founding population, thereby refuting multiple-migration models."

Law

The American legal system also has its roots in French philosophy with the separation of powers and the federal system along with English law in common law. For example, elements of the Magna Carta in it contain provisions on criminal law that were incorporated into the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. It as well as other documents had elements influencing and incorporated into the United States Constitution.

American iconic symbols

American flag

• Flag of the United States – Based on the first flag of the United States of America the Grand Union Flag was first flown on December 2, 1775.

Cuisine

• Apple pie – New England was the first region to experience large-scale English colonization in the early 17th century, beginning in 1620, and it was dominated by East Anglian Calvinists, better known as the Puritans. Baking was a particular favorite of the New Englanders and was the origin of dishes seen today as quintessentially "American", such as apple pie and the oven-roasted Thanksgiving turkey. "As American as apple pie" is a well-known phrase used to suggest that something is all-American.
• Hamburger – Invented in the United States and known as "Hamburger" after German immigrants from Hamburg who named the unnamed food, this cultural and widely known icon has trans international reach and has been internationally known for decades as a symbol of American fast food.
• Maxwell Street Polish consists of a grilled or fried length of Polish sausage topped with grilled onions and yellow mustard and optional pickled whole, green sport peppers, served on a bun. The sandwich traces its origins to Chicago's Maxwell Street market, and has been called one of "the classic foods synonymous with Chicago".
• Tex-Mex – Invented in Texas and spread around Southwestern United States this fusion between traditional Mexican Cuisine and American Cuisine has become popular throughout the United States and in North America.
• Buffalo Wings – Created in Buffalo, New York in the 1970s this dish is chicken wings glazed and dipped in vinegar hot sauce and butter with cayenne pepper and spices until hot and tasty. Now popular all over the country it has become a symbol of American cuisine.

Thanksgiving

• Thanksgiving – In the United States, it has become a national secular holiday (official since 1863) with religious origins. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by English settlers to give thanks to God and the Native Americans for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony survive the brutal winter. The modern Thanksgiving holiday traces its origins from a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast with the Native Americans after a successful growing season. William Bradford is credited as the first to proclaim the American cultural event which is generally referred to as the "First Thanksgiving".

Sports

• Baseball – English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008. This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants. The first appearance of the term that exists in print was in "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" in 1744, where it is called Base-Ball. Today, Rounders which has been played in England since Tudor times holds a similarity to Baseball. Although, literary references to early forms of "base-ball" in England pre-date use of the term "rounders".
• American football – can be traced to modified early versions of rugby football played in England and Canadian code football mixed with and ultimately changed by American innovations which led over time to the finished version of the game from 1876 to now. The basic set of rules were first developed in American universities in the mid-19th century.

Music

Another area of cultural influence are American Patriotic songs:

• American National Anthem – takes its melody from the 18th-century English song "To Anacreon in Heaven" written by John Stafford Smith from England for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London and lyrics written by Francis Scott Key. This became a well-known and recognized patriotic song throughout the United States, which was officially designated as the American national anthem in 1931.

Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom.

• Amazing Grace – written by English poet and clergyman John Newton. Popular among African Americans, it became an icon in American culture and has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns.
• Hail, Columbia – initial presidential inauguration song up until early 20th century. Now used for the Vice President.
• Battle Hymn of the Republic – Patriotic song sung during the civil war time between 1861 and 1865.

Motorcycle maker

• Harley-Davidson – The Davidson brothers were of Scottish descent (William. A. Davidson, Walter Davidson, Arthur Davidson) and William S. Harley of English descent. Along with Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company was the largest and most recognizable American motorcycle manufacturer.

Ancestral origins

Ancestral origin		1980	%	1990	%	2000	%	2014	%	Change 1990–2000
	Albanian	38,658	0.02%	47,710	0.02%	113,661	0.04%	186,030		+138.2%
	American	-	-	12,395,999	5.0%	20,188,305	7.2%	22,097,012	6.9%	+62.9%
	Austrian	948,558	0.42%	864,783	0.3%	730,336	0.3%	702,772		-15.5%
	Basque	43,140	0.02%	47,956	0.02%	57,793	0.02%			+20.5%
	Belarusian	-	-	-	-	25,639	0.2%
	Belgian	360,277	0.16%	380,403	0.2%	348,531	0.1%			-08.4%
	Bosnian	-	-	-	-	350,000	0.1%
	British	-	-	1,119,140	0.4%	1,085,718	0.4%	1,326,960		-03.0%
	Bulgarian	42,504	0.02%	29,595	0.01%	55,489	0.02%			+87.5%
	Catalan	-	-	-	-	1,738	-	-
	Croatian	252,970	0.11%	544,270	0.2%	374,241	0.1%			-31.2%
	Cypriot			4,897		7,643
	Czech	1,892,456	0.84%	1,296,369	0.5%	1,258,452	0.4%			-02.9%
	Danish	1,518,273	0.67%	1,634,648	0.7%	1,430,897	0.5%			-12.5%
	Dutch	6,304,499	2.78%	6,226,339	2.5%	4,541,770	1.6%	4,243,067		-27.1%
	English	49,598,035	21.89%	32,651,788	13.1%	24,509,692	8.7%	24,382,182	7.6%	-24.9%
	Estonian	25,994	0.01%	26,762	0.01%	25,034	0.01%	29,453		-06.5%
	Finnish	615,872	0.27%	658,854	0.3%	623,559	0.2%	635,566		-05.4%
	French: (incl: Cors..) (except Basque)	12,892,246	5.69%	10,320,656	4.1%	13,172,178	4.0%	8,153,515 2,099,430	2.6% 0.7%	+27.6%
	German: (incl: Amish, Tex.)	49,224,146	21.73%	57,947,171	23.3%	42,841,569	15.2%	46,047,113	14.4%	-26.1%
	Greek	959,856	0.42%	1,110,292	0.4%	1,153,295	0.4%			+03.9%
	Hungarian	1,776,902	0.78%	1,582,302	0.6%	1,398,702	0.5%			-11.6%
	Icelandic	32,586	0.01%	40,529	0.02%	42,716	0.01%	49,518		+05.4%
	Irish	40,165,702	17.73%	38,735,539	15.6%	30,524,799	10.8%	33,147,639	10.4%	-21.2%
	Italian: (incl: Sicilian)	12,183,692	5.38%	14,664,189	5.9%	15,638,348	5.6%	17,220,604	5.4%	+06.6%
	Latvian	92,141	0.04%	100,331	0.04%	87,564	0.03%			-12.7%
	Liechtensteiner	-	-	-	-	1,244	0.0004
	Lithuanian	742,776	0.33%	811,865	0.3%	659,992	0.2%			-18.7%
	Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	45,139	0.01%			-/+ 0%
	Macedonia	-	-	-	-	57,200	0.02%			-/+ -6,927%
	Maltese	31,645	0.01%	39,600	0.02%	40,159	0.01%			+01.4%
	Moldovan	-	-	-	-	7,859	0.003
	Monégasque	-	-	-	-	486
	Montenegrin	-	-	-	-	2,528	0.03%
	Norwegian	3,453,839	1.52%	3,869,395	1.6%	4,477,725	1.6%			+15.7%
	Pennsylvania Dutch	-	-	-	-	255,807	0.1%
	Polish	8,228,037	3.63%	9,366,051	3.8%	8,977,235	3.2%			-04.2%
	Portuguese	1,024,351	0.45%	1,148,857	0.5%	1,173,691	0.4%			+02.2%
	Romanian	315,258	0.14%	365,531	0.1%	367,278	0.1%			+0.5%
	Russian	2,781,432	1.23%	2,951,373	1.2%	2,652,214	0.9%			-10.1%
	Scots-Irish	16,418	0.007%	5,617,773	2.3%	4,319,232	1.5%	2,978,827		-23.1%
	Scottish	10,048,816	4.44%	5,393,581	2.2%	4,890,581	1.7%	5,365,154		-09.3%
	Serbian	100,941	0.04%	116,795	0.05%	51,679	0.05%			-50%
	Slovak	776,806	0.3%	1,882,897	0.8%	797,764	0.3%			-57.6%
	Slovene	126,463	0.06	124,437	0.1%	176,691	0.1%			+42%
	Sammarinese	-	-	-	-	538
	Spanish: (incl: Ast., Can., Hisp.)	94,52	0.1%	360,935		299,948		760,151		-16.9%
	Swedish	4,345,392	1.92%	4,680,863	1.9%	3,998,310	1.4%			-14.6%
	Swiss	981,543	0.43%	1,045,492	0.4%	911,502	0.3%			-12.8%
	Ukrainian	730,056	0.32%	740,723	0.3%	892,922	0.3%			+20.5%
	Welsh	1,664,598	0.73%	2,033,893	0.82%	1,753,794	0.6%	1,757,657		-13.8%
	Yugoslavian	-	-	-	-	328,547	0.1%	268,205
	Other European	-	-	-	-	1,968,696	0.7%	3,679,468	-	-
	Scandinavian	-	-	-	-	425,099	0.2%	583,323	-	-
	United States total	214,726,269	94.78%	223,371,445	89.81%	201,290,597	71.53%			-18,28%
Source: Figures for the 1980, 1990 and the 2000 United States Census. 2014 American Community Survey. Number and (%) percentage of total United States population. ^1 American ethnicity – people who self-identify their ethnicity as "American", rather than the more common hyphenated American ancestry groups that make up the majority of the American people.

Notes

States not geographically in Europe, but closely associated with the continent:

• ^2 Armenia
• ^4 Cyprus

States which straddle the border between Europe and Asia:

• ^3 Azerbaijan
• ^5 Georgia
• ^6 Turkey 5% European and 95% Asian portions.

Other:

• Jewish Americans, particularly those of Ashkenazi and Sephardi descent, are a diaspora population with origins in South Western Asia, but are often classified as White rather than Asian. In addition, all of the original peoples of the Middle East are classified as White by the US Census Bureau.
• Gypsy Americans are a diaspora group with origins in the Indian Subcontinent, but are sometimes classified as European.

Presidents of European descent

Most of the heritage that all forty-five US Presidents come from (or in some combination thereof): is British (English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish or Welsh) ancestry. Others include John F. Kennedy of Irish descent, Martin Van Buren of Dutch descent and two presidents whose fathers were of German descent: Dwight D. Eisenhower (whose original family name was Eisenhauer) and Herbert Hoover (Huber). Later US Presidents' ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe.

Admixture in Non-Hispanic Whites

Some White Americans have varying amounts of American Indian and Sub-Saharan African ancestry. In a recent study, Gonçalves et al. 2007 reported Sub-Saharan and Amerindian mtDna lineages at a frequency of 3.1% (respectively 0.9% and 2.2%) in American Caucasians (Please note that in the USA, "Caucasian" includes people from North Africa and Western Asia as well as Europeans). Recent research on Y-chromosomes and mtDNA detected no African admixture in European-Americans. The sample included 628 European-American Y-chromosomes and mtDNA from 922 European-Americans

DNA analysis on White Americans by geneticist Mark D. Shriver showed an average of 0.7% Sub-Saharan African admixture and 3.2% Native American admixture. The same author, in another study, claimed that about 30% of all White Americans, approximately 66 million people, have a median of 2.3% of Black African admixture. Later, Shriver retracted his statement, saying that actually around 5% of White Americans exhibit some detectable level of African ancestry.

From the 23andMe database, about 5 to at least 13 percent of self-identified White American Southerners have greater than 1 percent African ancestry. Southern states with the highest African American populations, tended to have the highest percentages of hidden African ancestry. White Americans (European Americans) on average are: “98.6 percent European, 0.19 percent African and 0.18 percent Native American.” Inferred British/Irish ancestry is found in European Americans from all states at mean proportions of above 20%, and represents a majority of ancestry, above 50% mean proportion, in states such as Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Scandinavian ancestry in European Americans is highly localized; most states show only trace mean proportions of Scandinavian ancestry, while it comprises a significant proportion, upwards of 10%, of ancestry in European Americans from Minnesota and the Dakotas.

See also

• American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union
• American ethnicity
• Anglo
• Ethnic groups in Europe
• European Canadians
• Europhobia
• Immigration to the United States
• Melting pot
• Non-Hispanic Whites
• Stereotypes of European Americans
• White Americans
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• White ethnic
• White Hispanic and Latino Americans
• White Southerners

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