ukemigrant

I found this site while looking for car info (don't know how...).

http://www.city-data.com/

Very nice - just enter your zipcode and voila. I liked the last bit of info on the page:

First ancestries reported:

German: 2188
Italian: 938
Irish: 626
Polish: 537
English: 389
United States or American: 360
Scotch-Irish: 285
Other groups: 219
Slovak: 196
Croatian: 129
Greek: 112
Ukrainian: 101
Hungarian: 85
Scottish: 74
French (except Basque): 69
Serbian: 60
Russian: 58
Czech: 48
Swedish: 37
Welsh: 35
Slovene: 32
Norwegian: 29
Eastern European: 23
French Canadian: 19
Czechoslovakian: 18
Dutch: 17
Slavic: 15
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 14
Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 14
European: 13
Pennsylvania German: 8
Scandinavian: 7
Arab:: 5
Lebanese: 5
Austrian: 2
Northern European: 2
Swiss: 1

Steff

My town is not very diverse!


Housing units: 1,746
Land area: 36.3 sq. mi.
Water area: 0.2 sq. mi.

White population: 4513
Black population: 11
American Indian population: 2
Asian population: 10
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 1
Some other race population: 4
Two or more races population: 23

Urban population: 1330

And it looks like my husband doesn't have much company hehe
"0.7% Foreign born "

NC Penguin

Love the residents who decided they were "European" or even "Northern European"!



NC Penguin

NC Penguin

This is the ancestry breakdown for residents in my city-

First ancestries reported:

* Other groups: 13398
* English: 2061
* German: 1860
* Irish: 1653
* United States or American: 1535
* Italian: 794
* Scotch-Irish: 573
* European: 571
* Subsaharan African:: 532
* Scottish: 413
* African: 384
* Polish: 378
* French (except Basque): 345
* British: 259
* Norwegian: 252
* Canadian: 211
* French Canadian: 161
* Swedish: 154
* Russian: 135
* Welsh: 123
* West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 104
* Hungarian: 91
* Dutch: 86
* Lithuanian: 75
* Arab:: 73
* Eastern European: 64
* Slovak: 59
* Danish: 59
* Ukrainian: 56
* Jamaican: 56
* Northern European: 50
* Somalian: 50
* Scandinavian: 48
* Iranian: 46
* Israeli: 38
* Belgian: 34
* Austrian: 32
* Icelander: 30
* Other Subsaharan African: 29
* Ghanian: 27
* Other Arab: 26
* Guyanese: 22
* Czech: 22
* Lebanese: 18
* Nigerian: 18
* Zimbabwean: 17
* Slovene: 16
* Czechoslovakian: 16
* Finnish: 15
* Greek: 13
* Albanian: 13
* West Indian: 13
* Palestinian: 13
* Swiss: 11
* Barbadian: 10
* Bahamian: 10
* Haitian: 9
* Turkish: 9
* Latvian: 9
* Slavic: 9
* Iraqi: 8
* Pennsylvania German: 8
* Brazilian: 8
* Egyptian: 8
* South African: 7
* British West Indian: 6
* Croatian: 5




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Pulaski

What puzzles me is how my zip code can have typical Aprils having 12 cloudy days, 9 partly cloudy days, and 10 days clear of cloud, typical Septembers having 11 cloudy days, 9 partly cloudy days, and 9 days clear of cloud, and typical Novembers with 12 cloudy days, 6 partly cloudy days, and 11 days clear of cloud.

This means that locally typical Aprils have 31 days, typical Septembers and Novembers have 29 days, and a typical year is 364 days!

HoosierDaddy

"Scotch-Irish"

<shudder/groan ala Sideshow Bob>

Those of us from Scotland are Scottish or Scots. Not a drink, although we do love to.

Lynne

The ancestries for my city are:

German 12.2%
United States 9.8%
Irish 8.1%
English 7.7%
Scotch-Irish 4.6%
Dutch 3.1%

ScotsmanInTexas

The myth of Scotch-Irish taints all American statistics. They seem unable to differentiate between Scottish and Irish, and even today Americans find it hard to believe that the Scots and English Presbyterians involved in the plantation of NI did not inter-marry with the native Irish (prior to them leaving for the USA/Canada). There is no such thing as Scots-Irish. I read some place that President Woodrow Wilson was (Scots-Irish) in some text books he has amazingly become Irish. The fact of the matter is his ancestor was from Dundee and besides his surname is a name of families only found in the UK mainland, with the exception of those who carried that name to NI during the plantation 17th c. So at what point did he suddenly become Irish? No criticism of the Irish here, so don't get me wrong. I'm just pointing out the propaganda which has manifested itself in all American culture. No doubt in some text book 100 years from now I'll be a statistic in some American schoolbook and wrongly called "Scots-Irish". Give unto Ceaser what is his...

Dimsie

Interesting site - thanks for the link

Our town is as follows - very surprising that there isn't a bigger percentage of American Indians here in Oklahoma.


White Non-Hispanic (83.3%)
Hispanic (6.0%)
American Indian (5.9%)
Black (4.1%)
Two or more races (2.6%)
Other race (2.4%)

gruffbrown

Another good site for demographics..

http://www.epodunk.com/

ScotsmanInTexas

I don't know maybe they went somewhere else. I mean I saw a bumper sticker saying 'Oklahoma is OK', hardly a boast is it now? Surely it should read 'Oklahoma is better than OK'? Not sure a place which considers itself just OK is quite what we want to see. Places tongue in cheek...

Dimsie

LOL! Okies are not given to boasting like their Texan neighbours

The American Indians who are here all seem to be running casinos (would you believe?) They have moved on from the smoke shops, probably due to the decrease in number of smokers. We have one of their casinos a few miles down the road, and the car park is always full - wonder what the church elders have to say about it!

Patrick

I am surprised that my city is only 98% white, this is NC, how did the 2% sneak in? Then again even North Carolinians need cleaners.

White Non-Hispanic (97.9%)
American Indian (1.0%)
Hispanic (0.9%)
Two or more races (0.9%)

Ancestries:
English (20.4%)
Irish (16.9%)
German (15.3%)
United States (10.4%)
Scotch-Irish (6.6%)
Italian (6.1%).

High school or higher: 91.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 32.1%
Graduate or professional degree: 11.5%
Unemployed: 5.2%

The state slogan for NC should be

"Tolerance and Racial Harmony, not on our watch".

fatbrit

WTF is Scotch-Irish!

Patrick

I think its like

Welch-English

or

Swedich-Finn

or

Norwidch-Swede

or

Italianch- Swis

or

Germanch - swis

or

Frenchch - swis