English Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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English Americans


00:01:59 1 Sense of identity
00:03:18 2 Number of English Americans
00:03:45 2.1 Colonial period
00:03:54 2.2 1700-1776
00:04:37 3 Censuses
00:04:46 3.1 National origins, 1790
00:06:53 3.2 1980
00:07:37 3.3 1990
00:08:22 3.4 2000
00:09:30 3.5 English expatriates
00:10:01 4 Geographical distribution
00:10:11 4.1 States
00:10:43 4.2 Cities
00:12:41 5 History
00:12:49 5.1 Early settlement and colonization
00:14:41 5.2 English immigration after 1776
00:18:09 5.3 Political influence
00:20:43 6 Language
00:22:31 6.1 Expression
00:23:06 7 Cultural influences
00:23:21 7.1 Cuisine
00:24:20 7.2 Celebrations
00:25:07 7.3 Sports
00:26:35 7.4 Law
00:27:08 7.5 Music
00:29:09 8 English family names
00:31:23 9 English place names in the United States
00:31:49 9.1 Alabama
00:32:00 9.2 California
00:32:12 9.3 Delaware
00:32:33 9.4 Georgia
00:32:45 9.5 Maryland
00:32:58 9.6 Massachusetts
00:33:21 9.7 New Hampshire
00:33:36 9.8 New Jersey
00:34:04 9.9 New York
00:34:26 9.10 Pennsylvania
00:35:37 9.11 The Carolinas
00:35:58 9.12 Virginia
00:36:31 10 Architecture
00:37:11 11 Notable people
00:37:20 11.1 Presidents of English descent
00:43:35 12 See also



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English Americans (also referred to as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
In the 2017 American Community Survey, English Americans are (7.1%) of the total population.However, demographers regard this as a serious undercount, as the index of inconsistency is high and many if not most Americans from English stock have a tendency to identify simply as "Americans" or if of mixed European ancestry, identify with a more recent and differentiated ethnic group. 
In the 1980 Census, over 49 million (49,598,035) Americans claimed English ancestry, at the time around 26.34% of the total population and largest reported group which, even today, would make them the largest ethnic group in the United States. Scotch-Irish Americans are for the most part descendants of Lowland Scots and Northern English (specifically - County Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland and Yorkshire) settlers who colonized Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century.
In 1982, an opinion poll showed respondents a card listing a number of ethnic groups and asked, "Thinking both of what they have contributed to this country and have gotten from this country, for each one tell me whether you think, on balance, they've been a good or a bad thing for this country." The English were the top ethnic group, with 66% saying they were a good thing for the United States, followed by the Irish at 62%. Ben J. Wattenberg argues that this poll demonstrates a general American bias against Hispanics and other recent immigrant populations.The majority—57%--of the Founding Fathers of the United States were of English extraction.
English immigrants in the 19th century, as with other groups, sought economic prosperity. They began migrating in large numbers without state support, 1840s to 1890s.