Can someone please explain this map to me?

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Why is this surprising to anyone? What main ancestry were you expecting?

Well, I was kind of expecting England and Ireland.

I guess that is due to the fact I never hear about German influence inside America. Do the Germans do nothing there?

[Bosh]

Originally posted by FrostyBoy


Well, I was kind of expecting England and Ireland.

I guess that is due to the fact I never hear about German influence inside America. Do the Germans do nothing there?

A lot of Germans moved to flyover states that get ignored a lot, there's a lot of German influence throughout a big swath of the Mid-West.

[Dinner]

You have to remember that this map was generated by only looking at people's last name and then assigning a nationality to it. The actual national background of people might be very different for example 5/8ths English, 2/8ths French, 1/8German but if the last name is German then it's registered as German. Not an exact science.

[BeBMan]

If they only did something to improve your beer, bread, and cars. At least recently you figured out the Panzer thing

[Dry]

Originally posted by Oerdin
You have to remember that this map was generated by only looking at people's last name and then assigning a nationality to it. The actual national background of people might be very different for example 5/8ths English, 2/8ths French, 1/8German but if the last name is German then it's registered as German. Not an exact science.

If that is true, that would imply that Germans are more likely to have boyz, while English more likely to have girlz.
Statistically more boys? Natural evolution of a warlike civilization?
Ja, ja, mehr Soldaten!!

[onodera]

Originally posted by Will
The strange thing is that English is that the 1980 census showed English as the largest ancestry at about 15%. The 2000 census showed that the percent of English had halved. In exchange German went up 3% and American went up 5%, IIRC.

WTF is American ancestry if there's a separate American Indian entry? Does it describe people who grow on American trees instead of being born?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dry

If that is true, that would imply that Germans are more likely to have boyz, while English more likely to have girlz.
Statistically more boys? Natural evolution of a warlike civilization?
Ja, ja, mehr Soldaten!!

No. It means lots of German men came to America in the 19th century and then they ended up marrying local girls.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by onodera

WTF is American ancestry if there's a separate American Indian entry? Does it describe people who grow on American trees instead of being born?

It means there are a lot of red necks who don't know their family background.

[Asher]

It means they are aboriginals..

[Space05us]

Yes somebody please explain why Irish is not green! What kind of map makes Irish not green?

[Dry]

Irish haters.
Clearly.

Celtophobes.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Wait, I thought Americans were supposed to be ignorant about this sort of stuff?

Laboring along in ignorance again?

[chequita guevara]

In addition to what Oerdin pointed out, keep in mind that a lot of those counties on that map are sparsely populated. Fifty percent of our people live in just ten states.

[Will9]

Originally posted by Oerdin
You have to remember that this map was generated by only looking at people's last name and then assigning a nationality to it. The actual national background of people might be very different for example 5/8ths English, 2/8ths French, 1/8German but if the last name is German then it's registered as German. Not an exact science.

I think it is generated using census data