English-Americans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
25,926,451 2010 American Community Survey 7.6% of the total U.S. population |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Throughout the entire United States Predominantly in New England, the Delaware Valley, the Mormon Corridor and the South Plurality in Utah and Maine |
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| California | 4,946,554 |
| Texas | 3,083,323 |
| Ohio | 2,371,236 |
| New York | 2,320,503 |
| Florida | 2,232,514 |
| Michigan | 2,036,021 |
| Illinois | 1,808,333 |
| North Carolina | 1,778,008 |
| Georgia | 1,584,303 |
| Tennessee | 1,435,147 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,058,737 |
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English Americans, also referred to as Anglo-Americans, are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England, a country that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In the 2014 American Community Survey, English Americans are (7.6%) of the total population.
However, demographers regard this as a serious undercount, as the index of inconsistency is high, and many, if not most, people from English stock have a tendency (since the introduction of a new "American" category (See ) in the 2000 census) to identify as simply Americans or if of mixed European ancestry, identify with a more recent and differentiated ethnic group. In the 1980 United States Census, over 49 million (49,598,035) Americans claimed English ancestry, at the time around 26.34% of the total population and largest reported group which, even today, would make them the largest ethnic group in the United States. Eight out of the ten most common surnames in the United States are of English origin or having possible mixed British Isles heritage, the other two being of Spanish origin.Scotch-Irish Americans are for the most part descendants of Lowland Scots and Northern English (specifically: County Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland) settlers who colonized Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century.
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