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[–]Sapphire 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How mixed are White Americans outside of the major coastal states/cities?

It seems (to me, as someone not from the US) that there's an obvious Germanic/Nordic look in many white Americans from states like the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee etc.

I was in TN and remember seeing a lot of white mothers with blond(e)-haired kids somewhere outside of Nashville.

My understanding of US immigration history (between the 1840s - 1920s or thereabouts) is that the Irish, Italians, Polish, Jews, etc tended to congregate in ethnic neighbourhoods in NYC, NJ, Philly and Chicago, whereas immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany were more inclined to move out West and spread out. I know there were cohesive German communities, where German was spoken etc, but WW1 sort of killed that off.

I used to be under the impression that it was trendy in the US to be of Irish or Italian stock, but apparently that's mainly just a NYC/NJ/Boston thing that's been overemphasized in popular culture due to things like The Sopranos, Jersey Shore, and so on. At least according to /r/AskAnAmerican on Reddit.

[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I live in the Midwest (Ohio specifically) and a lot of the Whites I've seen are quite obviously mostly/completely White. Whites of Germanic descent, made obvious by surname and/or phenotype, are very common and the rest I'd say are probably Anglo or of indeterminable White admixture.