European American
| Total population | |
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233,963,128 73.4% of the total U.S. population (2014) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
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Continental United States, smaller populations in Alaska and Hawaii |
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| Languages | |
| Predominantly English Spanish • others |
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| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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European diaspora Europeans • White Americans |
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^1 An additional 22,097,012 people (6.9% of the population) chose "American" as their ethnic group in the 2014 Community Survey. This is due to their lineage being so long in the United States, many are of European origins. |
European Americans (also known as Euro-Americans) are Americans with ancestry from Europe.
The Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States.Martín de Argüelles born 1566, St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, was the first known person of European descent born in what is now the United States. Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare, born in 1587 on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents. In the 2014 American Community Survey, German Americans (14.4%), Irish Americans (10.4%), English Americans (7.6%) and Italian Americans (5.4%) were the four largest self-reported European ancestry groups in the United States forming 37.8% of the total population. However, the English-Americans and British-Americans demography is considered a serious under-count as the stock tend to self-report and identify as simply 'Americans' due to the length of time they have inhabited America.
European Americans are included in the category of "White". "White" is defined by the United States Census Bureau as "a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". According to the US Census, European Americans are a subset of White Americans. The term "Non-Hispanic White" is often used as a proxy for European Americans, although that also includes a small fraction of peoples of Middle Eastern descent.
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