Reference: Interactive Graphic: Measuring the U.S. Melting Pot (U.S. Community Survey Data)
More than half of the nation’s 3,143 counties contain a plurality of people who describe themselves as German-American, according to a Bloomberg compilation of data from the Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey.
Use the interactive graphic to explore the results of the survey and see the distribution of other heritages across the country. Select an ancestry to see its concentration, county by county, then choose one from the right to compare their relative prominence in a region.
See Also: Summary: 2010 Census Shows Asians are Fastest-Growing Race Group
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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