White American
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The term White American is rarely used because the term blank American is mostly used when the first word is a place. The terms Asian American and African American are more common, because their first term is a place. The word American is appended to the back to distinguish between people who live in the United States and people who live in the foreign continent. Since White is not a continent, the term American is rarely appended, but it is understood that Whites in the United States means White American. The bulk of whites in the United States are those of Irish, German, British Isles, Italian, and Scandinavian origins.
2000 US Census
White American is the second largest group counted in the United States, comprising 77.1 percent of the population in the 2000 US Census. It is second only to "not Hispanic or Latino" which encompases 96.4% of Americans including any race. Their numbers include people who additionaly marked Hispanic or Latino and White, because "Census 2000 asked separate questions on race and Hispanic or Latino origin". White is defined on the 2000-2010 US Census to include people with origins in the original peoples of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Demographics
White Americans have a population influenced strongly by the original European immigration to the East Coast. Referencing the 2000 US Census, White Americans have the largest population density on the east coast since this was the original destination of immigrants from Europe. The European American descendents of these immigrants then migrated to the west coast. These migrants traveled to California for the Gold Rush and have since stayed there, causing California to have a high White American population. California also has a sizable Mexican-American population, most of whom have white ancestry as well as native ancestry. They are legally classified as White unless definitely Indian or some other race (In re Rodriguez, 1897-Mexicans are White).California additionally has had many Asian American immigrants, particularly East Asian American and Southeast Asian Americans, in recent years. The South has a large African American population in part due to the large slave population in that region prior to the American Civil War, and also due to post-1980 migration of African Americans from other parts of the country to the South.[link]
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