Maps of American ancestries | Wikipedia audio article
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Maps of American ancestries


00:02:57 1 Racial and ethnic categories
00:06:07 1.1 Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino origin
00:07:40 2 Social definitions of race
00:16:28 3 Historical trends and influences
00:25:34 4 Racial makeup of the U.S. population
00:25:52 4.1 White and European Americans
00:29:41 4.2 Black and African Americans
00:33:59 4.3 Hispanic and Latino Americans
00:37:29 4.4 Asian Americans
00:39:17 4.5 Native Americans and Alaska Natives
00:42:06 4.6 Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders
00:43:33 4.7 Middle Easterners and North Africans
00:46:20 4.8 Two or more races
00:48:16 4.8.1 Genetic admixture
00:50:36 4.9 Members of other races
00:51:51 5 Ancestry
00:52:53 5.1 2015 American Community Survey
00:53:14 5.2 Ancestry maps
00:53:23 5.2.1 Major ancestries
00:53:45 5.2.2 European American ancestries
00:54:03 6 See also



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The United States of America has a racially and ethnically diverse population. The United States Census officially recognizes six racial categories: White American, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races; a category called "some other race" is also used in the census and other surveys, but is not official. The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino", which identifies Hispanic and Latino Americans as an ethnicity (not a race) distinct from others, and comprising the largest minority group in the nation.The United States Supreme Court unanimously held that "race" is not limited to Census designations on the "race question" but extends to all ethnicities, and thus can include Jewish and Arab as well as Polish or Italian or Irish, etc. In fact, the Census asks an "Ancestry Question" which covers the broader notion of ethnicity initially in the 2000 Census long form and now in the American Community Survey. The ancestry question will return in the 2020 Census.As of  July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority.  African Americans are the largest racial minority, amounting to an estimated 12.7% of the population. Hispanic and Latino Americans amount to an estimated 17.8% of the total U.S. population, making up the largest ethnic minority. The White, non-Hispanic or Latino population make up 61.3% of the nation's total, with the total White population (including White Hispanics and Latinos) being 76.9%.White Americans are the majority in every census-defined region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West) and in every state except Hawaii, but contribute the highest proportion of the population in the Midwestern United States, at 85% per the Population Estimates Program (PEP), or 83% per the American Community Survey (ACS). Non-Hispanic Whites make up 79% of the Midwest's population, the highest ratio of any region. However, 35% of White Americans (whether all White Americans or non-Hispanic/Latino only) live in the South, the most of any region.55% of the African American population lives in the South. A plurality or majority of the other official groups reside in the West. The latter region is home to 42% of Hispanic and Latino Americans, 46% of Asian Americans, 48% of American Indians and Alaska Natives, 68% of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, 37% of the "two or more races" population (Multiracial Americans), and 46% of those self-designated as "some other race".