Quick facts for kids
British Americans
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Total population |
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Self-identified as British 1,891,234 (2017)
0.6% of the total U.S. population.
Other estimates: 90,573,000
23.3% of the total U.S. population |
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Throughout the entire United States except parts of the Midwest
Predominantly in the South, Northeast and West regions. |
Languages |
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English (American English, British English), Goidelic languages, Scots, Welsh |
Religion |
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Christian
Mainly Protestant (especially Baptist, Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian and Quaker) and to a lesser extent Catholic, Latter-day Saint and Eastern or Oriental Orthodox |
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British American usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). In the 2017 American Community Survey 1,891,234 individuals or 0.6% of the responses self-identified as British. It is primarily a demographic or historical research category for people who have at least partial descent from peoples of Great Britain and the modern United Kingdom, i.e. English, Scottish, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Manx and Cornish Americans.
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Central Europe |
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Eastern Europe |
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Northern Europe
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- Estonian
- Finnish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Scandinavian
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Dakotan
- Norwegian Minnesotan
- Sami
- Swedish
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Southeast Europe3 |
- Albanian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Cypriot
- Greek
- Macedonian
- Moldovan
- Montenegrin
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Turkish4
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Southern Europe |
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Western Europe |
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Other Europeans |
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1 Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I.
2 Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.
3 Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia.
4 Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.
5 Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.
6 Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands.
7 Disputed; Jews and Roma both have recognised origins and historic ties to Asia ( the Levant and Northern India respectively), but individual groups listed here experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.
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Images for kids
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British American plurality in light green. (2010)
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Uncle Sam embracing John Bull, while Britannia and Columbia hold hands and sit together in the background (1898).
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