15 Facts About White Americans

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White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people.

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European Americans are the largest panethnic group of white Americans and have constituted the majority population of the United States since the nation's founding.

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Largest ancestries of white Americans include German, Irish, English, Italian, French, Polish, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Russian, each respectively.

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However, the British White Americans' demography is considered a serious under-count as the stock tend to self-report and identify as simply "White Americans", due to the length of time they have inhabited the United States, particularly if their family arrived prior to the American Revolution.

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5.

Definitions of who is "White Americans" have changed throughout the history of the United States.

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6.

Definition of White Americans has changed significantly over the course of American history.

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7.

Academics and activists disillusioned with the outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement pointed out that though African Americans supposedly enjoyed legal equality, white Americans continued to hold disproportionate power and still had superior living standards.

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8.

White Americans constitute the majority of the 332 million people living in the United States, with 61.

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9.

White Americans are the majority racial group in almost all of the United States.

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10.

White Americans have the second highest median household income and personal income levels in the nation, by cultural background.

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11.

The median income per household member was the highest, since White Americans had the smallest households of any racial demographic in the nation.

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12.

White Americans are more likely to live in suburbs and small cities than their black counterparts.

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13.

White Americans tend to vote for the Republican Party ever since the 1960s when the party pushed for the Southern strategy electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South.

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14.

White Americans's thesis is that the culture of each group persisted, providing the basis for the modern United States.

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15.

Some white Americans have varying amounts of American Indian and Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

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