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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2009 Mar;35(1):1–51. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00260.x

TABLE 5.

First and second ancestry responses of whites and blacks, 2000

Whitesa
Blacksa
First
Second
First
Second
(1000s) % (1000s) % (1000s) % (1000s) %
New World 42,726 20.2 4,148 2.0 New World 25,267 73.4 343 1.0
White/Caucasian 3,330 1.6 0 0.0 African American 21,749 63.2 88 0.3
Anglo etc.b 438 0.2 0 0.0 Black 1,618 4.7 0 0.0
“American” 19,285 9.1 0 0.0 Negro etc.c 637 1.9 9 0.0
U.S. etc.d 375 0.2 0 0.0 “American” 628 1.8 0 0.0
Canadian 2,278 1.1 606 0.3 U.S. etc.d 24 1.8 0 0.0
Hispanic origin 14,660 6.9 1,041 0.5 Hispanic origin 442 0.1 86 0.0
AIAN origin 2,360 1.1 2,500 1.2 AIAN origin 169 1.3 160 0.3
Europe 119,654 56.6 53,351 25.3 West Indies and Africa 2,855 8.3 107 0.3
German/Austrian 30,467 14.4 12,609 6.0 Jamaican 561 1.6 33 0.1
Irish 18,946 9.0 10,933 5.2 Haitian 439 1.3 10 0.0
English/British 17,268 8.2 7,926 3.8 Other West Indies 379 1.1 32 0.1
Italian 12,597 6.0 2,662 1.3 Nigerian 153 0.4 2 0.0
Polish 6,265 3.0 2,623 1.2 Other African 270 0.8 4 0.0
French 4,708 2.2 3,290 1.6 “African”e 1,052 3.1 26 0.1
Scottish 6,449 3.1 2,700 1.3
Norwegian 3,149 1.5 1,196 0.6 Residual 6,283 18.3 33,955 98.7
Dutch 2,506 1.2 1,946 0.9 Other ancestries 324 0.9 174 0.5
Swedish 2,424 1.1 1,547 0.7 Not codedf 5,959 17.3 33,781 98.2
Russian 1,877 0.9 722 0.3 Total
34,405
100
34,405
100
Greek 913 0.4 191 0.1
Portuguese 848 0.4 221 0.1
Welsh 896 0.4 852 0.4
Hungarian 882 0.4 477 0.2
Danish 842 0.4 574 0.3
Ukrainian 643 0.3 227 0.1
Swiss 525 0.2 370 0.2
Slovak 502 0.2 275 0.1
Czech 806 0.4 429 0.2
Finnish 427 0.2 189 0.1
Lithuanian 426 0.2 228 0.1
Lebanese 313 0.1 86 0.0
Armenian 287 0.1 46 0.0
Other European 2,298 1.1 990 0.5
“European”e 2,390 1.1 41 0.0
Residual 48,884 23.1 153,766 72.8
Other ancestries 1,730 0.8 373 0.2
Not codedf 47,154 22.3 153,392 72.6
Total 211,265 100 211,265 100

AIAN = American Indian and Alaska Native.

a

White alone and Black alone populations.

b

Anglo, Aryan, and Appalachian.

c

Afro-Am., Negro, Afro, Creole, Colored, Mulatto, Nonwhite.

d

Includes states and regions (Southerner, e.g.).

e

Wrote “Europe,” “Africa,” or sub-region (West African, e.g.).

f

Missing, uncodable, or religious write-in.

SOURCE: 2000 IPUMS .01 File