![Combined Percentage of British Ancestry in the USA in 2024. [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/wxyp3r6f60ug1-1536x1031.png "Combined Percentage of British Ancestry in the USA in 2024. [OC]")
Source: DP02: Selected Social Characteristics in the United States, 2024: ACS 5-Year Estimates Data Profiles. "British" is defined on this map as the following ancestries listed in the American Community Survey: American, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish. (DATA FOR ALASKA COULDN'T BE LOADED)
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Midwest full of German ancestry instead
Utah is, once again, a bit of an outlier. Early mormon missionaries had a decent amount of success in england and convinced people to sail across the ocean, walk across the plains, and settle in the desert. Apparently enough that it shows up in genealogical studies.
Btw, I DO NOT CARE if you post this anywhere online. You don’t need to credit me.
Should mass an RI lose new england status?
I’d imagine most multi-generational Americans even African Americans, have British ancestry at this point.
My mother-in-law would refer to her genealogy as “Heinz 57”. Once we did some digging we discovered she was 90% English.
Holland, MI in Ottawa County looking appropriately dark. As a 5’11” woman I never realized that my height was an outlier until I moved away bc those Dutch roots go hard
Minnesota basically disappearing on this map. We’re Nordic up here.
I’m surprised that the highest percentage is 40%. What other nationalities are they mixed with?
Interesting. I’m mostly English and thought it was pretty standard where I’m from but it’s blacked out so I guess not…
What mapping software or package are you using? I use leaflet in R and I’ve been in geometry hell trying to find a package that will give me this projection with Alaska and Hawaii underneath.
Looks like they don’t like to farm