The Ethnic Origins of White Americans

A few months ago, I published a study on this blog about the Ethno-Ancestral origins of White or European Americans, doing research from Reddit (23andMe & AncestryDNA results), Wikipedia, & other sources.

Over the past month, I been working on another study, once again focusing on the Ethnic Origins of White Americans, using AncestryDNA & 23andMe results from Reddit & Facebook, I've counted the amount of ethnic ancestry among Whites from the United States as I've been working on my study, & the other day, I finally calculated the percentages & finished my study, & here's what I've concluded.

• 31.85% British (English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, & Scots-Irish)
• 21.14% German
• 14.68% Irish
• 6.74% Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, & Danish)
• 6.46% Italian
• 6.46% French
• 4.80% Jewish (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Italkim, & Mizrahi)
• 4.43% Spanish/Spaniard (mainly via Latin America, as well as Cajuns/Islenos from Louisiana & Colonial Hispanos from the Southwest).
• 2.30% Dutch
• 2.12% Swiss
• 2.03% Polish
• 1.75% Portuguese
• 1.29% Finnish
• 0.83% Belgian
• 0.64% Russian
• 0.64% Belarusian
• 0.55% Greek
• 0.55% Austrian
• 0.46% Czech
• 0.27% Basque
• 0.27% Ukrainian
• 0.18% Turkish
• 0.18% Hungarian
• 0.18% Lebanese
• 0.09% Rusyn
• 0.09% Slovak
• 0.09% Bulgarian
• 0.09% Romanian

So as you can see, the majority of White Americans are of British, German, & Irish origins, with significant percentages having Italian, Scandinavian, French, Jewish, Dutch, Polish, Swiss, Portuguese, Finnish, with smaller percentages of other West Eurasian ethnic groups.

As for those with Spanish or Spaniard ancestry, the vast majority of them are White Americans with Latin American ancestry (those mixed Hispanic & Non-Hispanic White) or Cuban-Americans (as the vast majority of the Cuban-American population is over 90% European Spanish aka Criollo), with some also being Islenos & Cajuns from Louisiana, & a smaller number being Criollos from other Latin American countries (such as from Mexico & Argentina), only a tiny number are directly from Spain (other than the White Americans from Louisiana), as Spanish immigration to the United States has always been very low, both historically & recently, as Spaniards have prefered Latin America & other countries of the European Union to immigrate for very obvious reasons.

However, most of the White American population are of various European ethnic origins, so most of the results of White Americans I've collected for this study are of mixed European ethnic origins.

All credit goes to Reddit, Facebook, & the owners of the DNA results, as well as 23andMe & AncestryDNA.