The first White settlers were the Spanish in Florida, followed by British & Dutch colonies in the East Coast & Appalachia, then, French colonies in the Midwest, Louisiana, & the Dakotas, than the Russians in Alaska & Fort Ross (near Sonoma County, California, as well as the Swedish colonies that in parts of the East Coast.
The Swedish Colony of New Sweden was ceded to the Dutch, becoming part of New Netherland, which the whole Colony was ceded to the British & became known as the Thirteen Colonies, the Dutch & Swedish settlers remained after the British takeover, which the colonies also received French Huguenots, Germans (which became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch), & Scots (after the Act of Union which united England & Scotland into one Kingdom), as well as the Welsh, in addition to the English settlers, along with a small minority of Irishmen (who many came as Indentured Servants, while others were part of the small minority of Catholic colonists who settled in Maryland).
After the American Revolution, which resulted in the Independence of the newly-created United States of America from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the U.S. began to expand its national borders, from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 (which France sold Louisiana to the United States), which was shortly after Spain returned Louisiana to France, then the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819 (which Spain ceded Florida to the United States), to the Texas Annexation in 1845 (after nearly 10 years after the Anglo settlers & Tejanos joined to secede from Mexico), which led to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, which resulted in Mexico ceding all of its National Frontier to the United States, which included New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, & parts of Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, & Colorado, known as the Mexican Cession, along with the Gadsen Purchase, which the United States purchased Southern Arizona from Mexico, which both the Mexican Cession & the Gadasen Purchase happened in the 1840s, after the Annexation of Texas, then Alaska was purchased by the United States from the Russian Empire, then the Annexation of Hawaii in 1898.
The groups found to be now part of the United States after expanding its borders were the Cajuns (French-Canadian Creoles), Creoles of Color (of mixed Cajun French & African-American roots), & the Islenos (Canary Islanders) of Louisiana, the Floridanos (the remaining original Spanish settlers of Florida, despite the vast majority of them fled to Cuba, both after the British takeover & the American annexation) & Minorcans (Spanish Minorcans brought to Florida under British rule) of Florida, the Hispanos of the Southwest (which include the Californios, the Hispanos of New Mexico, & the Tejanos, which are the descendants of mainly Mexican settlers (mainly Criollos & Mestizos), along with smaller minorities of Spanish Peninsulares, Canary Islanders, Indigenous Mexicans, Afro-Mexicans, & few other Hispanic peoples), then the Alaskan Creoles of Alaska (of mixed Russian & Alaskan Native ancestry).
From 1820 to 1978, in a total of 34,318,000 European immigrants arrived to the shores of the United States, originating from.
- Germany (6,978,000)
- Italy (5,294,000)
- Great Britain (4,898,000)
- Ireland (4,723,000)
- Austria-Hungary (4,315,000)
- Russian Empire (3,374,000)
- Sweden (1,272,000)
- Norway (856,000)
- France (751,000)
- Greece (655,000)
- Portugal (446,000)
- Denmark (364,000)
- Netherlands (359,000)
- Finland (33,000)
Also, the United States had a huge influx of French-Canadians (who arrived from Quebec between 1840 & 1930) & Cuban Criollos or Spanish-Cubans (who mainly arrived in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution)
Also, throughout history, the United States experienced immigration from Whites from other countries in the Anglosphere, besides the United States & Great Britain (the vast majority of them coming from Canada), as well as a minority of Mexican Criollo or Spanish-Mexican immigrants (mainly found in California, & a good chunk of them are from the Highlands of Jalisco, but many come from other regions in Mexico, as well).
According to the 2020 Census, the most common self-reported Ethno-Ancestral Groups for White Americans are.
- British (54.92 million), including English (24.4 million), American (22 million), Scottish (5.46 million), & Scots-Irish (3.06 million)
- German (45.9 million)
- Irish (33.1 million)
- Italian (17.2 million)
- French (10.23 million), including French-Canadian (2.08 million)
- Polish (9.34 million)
- Scandinavian (8.36 million), including Norwegian (4.45 million) & Swedish (3.91 million)
- Dutch (4.21 million)
- Russian (2.80 million)
According to 23andMe & AncestryDNA results on Reddit, the most common European ethno-ancestries for White Americans are Irish, German, British, Italian, Scandinavian, & French, while lesser common ancestries include Czechslovakian, Russian, Polish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Portuguese, Dutch, & Yugsloavian, while Spanish (mainly Canary Islander) is more common among White Americans from Louisiana (mainly the Cajun & Isleno populations) & the vast majority of Cuban-Americans (mostly concentrated in Florida), as well as White Americans with Latin American ancestry.
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