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Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:52 pm
Some of these are interesting:
Data is from City Data LINK
In the rare instances in which city data was not available, county data was used in its place.
Data is from City Data LINK
In the rare instances in which city data was not available, county data was used in its place.
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:56 pm to KSGamecock
So Starkville is a veritable paradise?
Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:58 pm to dcbl
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So Starkville is a veritable paradise?
If you like obesity.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 5:13 pm to KSGamecock
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So Starkville is a veritable paradise?
Lowest percentage that feels bad about themselves. Second highest in "diploma deficiency".
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:38 pm to KSGamecock
I thought there would be more Irish but I suppose English makes more sense considering that Georgia was one of the original 13 states and Kentucky (Virginia), Tennessee (North Carolina), Mississippi (Georgia) and Alabama (Georgia) were parts of the original 13 colonies.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 10:17 pm to Kentucker
The ancestry thing is really tricky for a bunch of reasons.
1. A large amount of people identify as ethnically or ancestrally "American" whatever that means. Maybe they don't know their ancestry, don't care, or are so mixed that they just find that category the easiest. It was the number 1 ancestry for maybe half of the cities but I filitered it out because it doesn't help.
2. Very few people in the country have ancestry from only one country so there could be a lot more Irish but they identify as something else.
3. Just a personal observation but people have a weird way of latching on to one particular part of their ancestry more than another for personal reasons and could possibly provide a lesser ancestry as their primary one when asked which would skew the results.
I found it kind of funny that all of the expansion teams were plurality German. Missouri and Texas make sense but Arkansas and South Carolina surprised me. I know the Columbia area has had a "Dutch" presence going back before the Revolution but I didn't expect it to be a plurality. Lexington was also 8.1% German but just slightly more English.
My guess on the Irish would be that there just aren't that many in the Southeast compared to the rest of the country. When I think of Irish immigration I think of the North East. Irish is one of those funny ancestries, along with Native American, where I think people over-report because it's interesting or in vogue. I would guess that English, Scottish, and German under-report because they're more common and "boring" to the average person.
1. A large amount of people identify as ethnically or ancestrally "American" whatever that means. Maybe they don't know their ancestry, don't care, or are so mixed that they just find that category the easiest. It was the number 1 ancestry for maybe half of the cities but I filitered it out because it doesn't help.
2. Very few people in the country have ancestry from only one country so there could be a lot more Irish but they identify as something else.
3. Just a personal observation but people have a weird way of latching on to one particular part of their ancestry more than another for personal reasons and could possibly provide a lesser ancestry as their primary one when asked which would skew the results.
I found it kind of funny that all of the expansion teams were plurality German. Missouri and Texas make sense but Arkansas and South Carolina surprised me. I know the Columbia area has had a "Dutch" presence going back before the Revolution but I didn't expect it to be a plurality. Lexington was also 8.1% German but just slightly more English.
My guess on the Irish would be that there just aren't that many in the Southeast compared to the rest of the country. When I think of Irish immigration I think of the North East. Irish is one of those funny ancestries, along with Native American, where I think people over-report because it's interesting or in vogue. I would guess that English, Scottish, and German under-report because they're more common and "boring" to the average person.
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 10:35 pm to KSGamecock
Zero rapes in Oxford in 2016. Nick Fitzgerald disagrees.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 10:59 pm to KSGamecock
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Germans
They said both expansions were about "TV money".
Now we know it was about genetically improving the SEC with the Master Race.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 8:27 am to KSGamecock
Interesting that all of the expansion teams and no others have primarily German ancestry.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 8:37 am to dcbl
I mean, I liked it there 
And obesity isn’t contagious, so you don’t have to worry about it
And obesity isn’t contagious, so you don’t have to worry about it
Posted on 5/16/18 at 8:55 am to AllbyMyRelf
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I mean, I liked it there
truth, I was surprised to see Starkville score so well in almost every category
bad on poverty and obesity, sure; but great numbers everywhere else - especially "feels good about themselves"
Posted on 5/16/18 at 10:30 am to KSGamecock
Whoever used that old Arkansas logo can go straight to hell.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 10:36 am to Numberwang
Sorry, here you go.
This post was edited on 5/16/18 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 5/16/18 at 1:43 pm to Carolina_Girl
For anywhere in South Carolina other than the area comprising Richland, Lexington and Orangeburg Counties, the answer likely wouldn't be German. In the Upstate, it'd be Scots-Irish. In the Pee Dee, it'd be the same. From Georgetown County south to Jasper County, it's probably English. And for Berkeley, Williamsburg and Clarendon Counties, it could be French because of the large Huguenot populations that settled there in the 1680's and 1690's.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 1:45 pm to KSGamecock
That's better. Thank you.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 2:12 pm to KSGamecock
I was excited to see this map until I looked up my county and it said its ancestry was "American."
Thanks a lot, map.
This post was edited on 5/16/18 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 5/16/18 at 2:33 pm to Master of Sinanju
Try City Data, they have a lot of recent census data.
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