America west is the most unidentifed region. The Question I want to ask where do most whites America that lived Washington State came from like what part of United States. The second question, did New England Yankee migrated to Washington State and Oregon as they do in Upstate New York.
I will also like to know about New Mexico and Arizona.
Where did most of the Whites came from, are they from the south or the North.
thanks
It is a proven fact that most of the whites in Arizona came from the far south, below Mexico. They migrated upwards from Antarctica, where everything is white, even the bears.
Oh now you’re just being mean.
Generally,ethnocultural influences have a sort of north-south spread & cross-pollination as one moves west in the USA.
I don’t know how far back you’re interested, but…
Map of America by surname:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/geography/usa-surnames-interactive
The really noticeable clusters to me at a glance: Scandinavians in Minnesota, Germans in Wisconsin, Irish in New York and Boston, Spanish in California and Miami…everywhere else is dominated by English/Welsh surnames.
Direct questions with factual answers find their best responses in General Questions.
I’m moving this thread away from Great Debates.
ETA: E-Sabbath, even in Great Debates, we’d prefer that there generally be some sort of genuine answer before the “humorous” posts begin. Thanks.
On this map I learned that Landry is a name of English origin…
Not that I am Polish, but I noticed a lack of Polish and other Eastern European names on that list. At one time I lived in Detroit and I know such names dominated the area. That was back in the pre politically correct times when Polish jokes were popular.
Is it just that there are so many different ones, none made it on the map?
Even if I couldn’t spell or pronounce the names of the politicians, I could tell their names apart. Later I moved to Columbus Ohio. One election day I was asked who I voted for. I said ‘‘Smith, Brown, and O’Neil, and I voted against Smith, Brown, and O’Neil’’.
Very true…
There should definitely be some Polish representation around Chicago.
Most of the settlers in the western states came from the northeast and midwest, or were immigrants who came via the northeastern cities. Southerners tended to be better-represented in the prospectors and other various fortune-seekers who came in the early waves, but most of these weren’t there to stay. When permanent settlers came, they were mostly small-time farmers. In the south, the prevalence of sharecropping and similar arrangements meant farmers were far less able to pick up and move out west than farmers in the north and mid-west. And in the case of Arizona and New Mexico, some of the immigration there actually came from the west as the prime land was used up in California-- those regions were settled a generation or two after the western-most states.
But also keep in mind that the demographics of the old pioneers doesn’t necessarily have much of a bearing on present-day demographics. The vast majority of immigration to most western states and cities happened during the 20th century. If you live somewhere like Seattle or Portland chances are you know a heck of a lot more people with parents or grandparents from out east than those whose families have been there for generations.
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Where all the white women at?
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Nothing dumb about that movie.
And the smartass in me wanted to say that most white people in the mentioned states probably come from those states, but I had a feeling he wasn’t talking about the current generation.
I want to thank everbody on their response.
GreasyJack has got it pretty much right. The Northwestern states (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, overlapping into parts of Nevada, Wyoming, Montana etc. were some of the last territory in the continental U.S. to be settled, and a large portion of the early settlers did indeed come from the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Particularly where there was mining activity, there was also quite a bit of influx from displaced southerners, particularly former confederate soldiers following the civil war, but Southerners were still a minority in the Northwest during the late 19th - early 20th century.
That changed however, during the agricultural depression of the 1920’s and the general depression which followed. At that time a great many people fled the dust bowl and starved out of the southern states, and a lot of them ended up in the Northwest. In large measure, this was due to the giant federal irrigation projects in that region. Most of them were built between 1910 - 1950 and a great amount of new farmland was available (people were still homesteading in Idaho and elsewhere into the 1950’s.) Today it seems like the majority of farmers in the rural west trace their family back to a grandfather or great-grandfather that starved out of Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska or texas back in the "dirty 30’s.
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I don’t think we’re allowed to leave. That’s why there are so many families here, like my Dad’s, that have been here since the 1700s. If we could leave, don’t you think we’d avoid the snow? I think it’s called a geis.
A geas?
You know, no matter how many times I read the OP I can’t make heads or tails of it. The grammar is appalling and the meaning murky to the point of opaqueness.
No, a geis. Elfkin wasn’t sure what it was called, but he geissed correctly.
A geas will often fly south for the weanter.
Don’t you mean, “A guse, will often fly south for the weanter?” :rolleyes:
Damn! Them “Jones” boys sure did ***“get around”, ***didn’t they?! :rolleyes:
Well, they did have an uncontrollable urge.
(I believe that’s called a grease.)