DesertOcean

Well, actually, the majority of white Americans are decendants of Irish stock.

Meow

The majority? I doubt that. Not if you look at the history of immigration from the whole of Europe.

DesertOcean

Sorry, looks like they come in second after the Germans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American

German Americans (16.5%), Irish Americans (11.9%), English Americans (9.0%), Italian Americans (5.8%), Polish Americans (3.3%), French Americans (3.1%), Scottish Americans (1.9%), Dutch Americans (1.6%), Norwegian Americans (1.5%), and Swedish Americans (1.4%) constitute the ten largest White American ancestries.[8] Whites constitute the majority, with a total of 223,553,265 or 72.4% of the population in the 2010 United States Census.

Norm_uk

Often they are all so mixed with each other they are going on family names alone.

That said there are more Irish in America than in Ireland...someone's been busy!

N.

Paracletus

There are more 'Norwegians' than in Norway too I've been told. But yeah..St.Patricks day in New York vs St. Patricks day in Dublin. Bloody immigrants I say.

Norm_uk

No disrespect to the first nations of the Americas and certainly no attempt to white wash the henious crimes of invading Europeans but they made the country one of the greatest in the world.

Now if only they could learn how to spell correctly...

N.

littlejimmy

I've written and published another racist rant...well, I'm not nice about Geordies a few time (all in the name of banter, possibly)...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Are-Boro...f=pd_ecc_rvi_1

Millsyisland

It appears someone has hacked into your Amazon 'About the Author' page and stuck in a picture of a serial killer.

littlejimmy

That's supposed to be me looking moody and arty. I guess "serial killer" will do.

Millsyisland

You've definitely achieved the 'moody' look.