re: Map of the US showing ancestry by county

Basically white people who:
Do not know their ancestry or don't care or are too mixed among different Europeans/Native American to list them or for whatever reason just consider themselves American

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So what exactly is "American" ancestry? America is only 239 years old. Native American? Edit: NVM I see American Indian. So really, what is American ancestry?

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Most people that refer to themselves as American are probably the groups that came prior to the mid 1850s. The early English and scotch-Irish peoples have been here long enough to lose much of their association with the old country. And many have bloodlines that fought in the Revolutionary War. They are American.

Newer groups like the Irish in the 1850s, and Italians in the early 1900s, still have attachment to their prior countries.