german ancestry map
Maps from Ancestry & Ethnicity in America, 2012, Grey House Publishing, Amenia, NY. Reprinted with permission.
The United States may be a melting pot, but manyancestry groups still stick together.
Take German-Americans, the country's largest ancestry group with 49 million members. While they make up more than 30% of the population in the Midwest, they account for less than 10% of the population in the Deep South and California.
Irish-Americans are everywhere in the North East, but almost nowhere in the South West. Meanwhile, there are hardly any Mexican-Americans in New England.
Maps of the largest ancestry and racial groups in America based on the American Community Survey can be found in a book called "Ancestry & Ethnicity in America." With permission from Grey House Publishing, we're posting them here.