British Americans




This article is about people of the U.S. with ancestral roots in the United Kingdom. For other uses, see Great Britain.

Not to be confused with Anglo-Americans.
















British Americans

Flag of the United Kingdom.svgFlag of the United States.svg
Total population

Self-identified as British
1,891,234Increase (2017)[1]
0.6% of the total U.S. population.
Other estimates: 72,065,000 [2]
23.3% of the total U.S. population
Regions with significant populations

Throughout the entire United States except parts of the Midwest
Predominantly in the South, Northeast and West regions.
Languages

English (American English, British English), Goidelic languages, Scots, Welsh
Religion

Christian
Mainly Protestant (especially Baptist, Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Quaker) and to a lesser extent Catholic and Mormon
Related ethnic groups


  • English Americans

  • Scottish Americans

  • Welsh Americans

  • Scotch-Irish Americans

  • Cornish Americans

  • Americans

  • British Canadians

  • Gaels

  • Britons

  • Irish Americans

British Americans usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). In the 2017 American Community Survey 1,891,234 individuals or 0.6% of the responses self-identified as British.[1] It is primarily a demographic or historical research category for people who have at least partial descent from peoples of Great Britain and the modern United Kingdom, i.e. English, Scottish, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Manx Americans.
There has been a significant drop overall, especially from the 1980 census where 49.59 million people reported English ancestry.[3]


Demographers regard current figures as a serious undercount, as a large proportion of Americans of British descent have a tendency to identify as 'American' since 1980 where over 13.3 million or 5.9% of the total U.S. population self-identified as "American" or "United States", this was counted under "not specified".[4] This response is highly overepresented in the Upland South a region settled historically by the British.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Many of mixed European ancestry, may identify with a more recent and differentiated ethnic group.[11] Of the top ten family names in the United States (2010), seven have English origins or having possible mixed British Isles heritage, the other three being of Spanish origin.[12]


Not to be confused when the term is also used in an entirely different (although possibly overlapping) sense to refer to people who are dual citizens of both the United Kingdom and the United States.




Contents






  • 1 Sense of heritage


  • 2 Number of British Americans


    • 2.1 Studies on origins, 1790


    • 2.2 1980


    • 2.3 1990


    • 2.4 2000


    • 2.5 Geographical distribution


      • 2.5.1 English


      • 2.5.2 Scottish


      • 2.5.3 Welsh






  • 3 History


    • 3.1 Overview




  • 4 Colonial period


    • 4.1 Immigration after 1776




  • 5 Cultural roots


    • 5.1 Historical influence


    • 5.2 Automakers


    • 5.3 Motorcycle manufacturer


    • 5.4 Sports


    • 5.5 Continental Colours, 1775-1777




  • 6 Place names


    • 6.1 Alabama


    • 6.2 Connecticut


    • 6.3 Delaware


    • 6.4 Maryland


    • 6.5 Massachusetts


    • 6.6 New Hampshire


    • 6.7 Pennsylvania


    • 6.8 Virginia




  • 7 See also


  • 8 References


  • 9 Scholarly sources


  • 10 External links





Sense of heritage





     UK       United States.


Americans of British heritage are often seen, and identify, as simply "American" due to the many historic cultural ties between Great Britain and the U.S. and their influence on the country's population. A leading specialist, Charlotte Erickson, found them to be ethnically "invisible,".[13] This may be due to the early establishment of British settlements; as well as to non-English groups having emigrated in order to establish significant communities.[14]



Number of British Americans


Table below shows the results from 1980 when ancestry was first collected by the U.S. census and the 2010 American Community Survey. Response rates for the ancestry question was 90.4% in 1990 and 80.1% in 2000 for the total US population.




British American plurality in light green. (2010)

































































































































Year
 Ancestral origin
 Number
 % of population
British; totals 61,327,867
31.67%
1980
 English 49,598,035 26.34%
Scottish 10,048,816 4.44%
Welsh 1,664,598 0.88%
Northern Islander 16,418 0.01%
Total 46,816,175
18.8%
1990
 English 32,651,788 13.1%
Scottish 5,393,581 2.2%
Scotch-Irish 5,617,773 2.3%
Welsh 2,033,893 0.8%
British 1,119,140 0.4%
Total 36,564,465
12.9%
2000
 English 24,515,138 8.7%
Scottish 4,890,581 1.7%
Scotch-Irish 4,319,232 1.5%
Welsh 1,753,794 0.6%
British 1,085,720 0.4%
Total 37,619,881
14.4%
2010
 English 25,927,345 8.4%
Scottish 5,460,679 3.1%
Scotch-Irish 3,257,161 1.9%
Welsh 1,793,356 0.6%
British 1,181,340 0.4%

Source:United States Census Bureau.[15][16][17][18][19]


Studies on origins, 1790


The ancestry of the 3,929,214 population in 1790 has been estimated by various sources by sampling last names in the very first United States official census and assigning them a country of origin.[20]
There is debate over the accuracy between the studies with individual scholars and the Federal Government using different techniques and conclusion for the ethnic composition.[21][20]
A study published in 1909 titled A Century of Population Growth by the Census Bureau estimated the British origin combined were around 90% of the white population.[22][23][24]


Another source by Thomas L. Purvis in 1984[25] estimated that people of British ancestry made up about 62% of the total population or 74% of the white or European American population.[26]
Some 81% of the total United States population was of European heritage.[27]
Around 757,208 were of African descent with 697,624 being slaves.[28]



1980


The 1980 census was the first that asked people's ancestry.[29] The 1980 United States Census reported 61,327,867 individuals or 31.67% of the total U.S. population self-identitfied as having British descent.
In 1980 16,418 Americans reported ‘Northern Islander’. No Scots-Irish (descendants of Ulster-Scots) ancestry was recorded, however over ten million people identified as Scottish.[30]
This figure fell to over 5 million each in the following census when the Scotch-Irish were first counted.[31]



1990


Over 90.4% of the United States population reported at least one ancestry, 9.6% (23,921,371) individuals as "not stated" with a total of 11.0% being "not specified".[32] Additional responses were Cornish (3,991), Northern Irish 4,009 and Manx 6,317.[33]



2000


Most of the population who stated their ancestry as "American" (20,625,093 or 7.3%) are said to be of old colonial British stock.[34]
































































































































Comparison between the 1790 and 2000 census
1790 estimates[35]
 2000 Census[36]
Ancestry
 Number
 % of total
 Ancestry
 Number
 % of total
English 2,605,699 66.3 German 42,885,162 15.2
Other Race 756,770 19.3 African 36,419,434 12.9
Scottish 221,562 5.6 Irish 30,594,130 10.9
German 176,407 4.5 English 24,515,138
8.7
Dutch 78,959 2.0 Mexican 20,640,711 7.3
Irish 61,534 1.6 Italian 15,723,555 5.6
French 17,619 0.4 French 10,846,018 3.9
Other European 10,664 0.3 Hispanic 10,017,244 3.6
Polish 8,977,444 3.2
Scottish 4,890,581
1.7
Dutch 4,542,494 1.6
Norwegian 4,477,725 1.6
Scotch-Irish 4,319,232
1.5
United States 3,929,214 [37]
 100 United States 281,421,906 100


Geographical distribution


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English




Scottish





Scots-Irish




Welsh




Following are the top 10 highest percentage of people of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry, in U.S. communities with 500 or more total inhabitants (for the total list of the 101 communities, see references)[38][39][40]



English




  1. Hildale, UT 66.9%


  2. Colorado City, AZ 52.7%


  3. Milbridge, ME 41.1%


  4. Panguitch, UT 40.0%


  5. Beaver, UT 39.8%


  6. Enterprise, UT 39.4%


  7. East Machias, ME 39.1%


  8. Marriott-Slaterville, UT 38.2%


  9. Wellsville, UT 37.9%


  10. Morgan, UT 37.2%



Scottish




  1. Lonaconing, MD town 16.1%


  2. Jordan, IL township 12.6%


  3. Scioto, OH township 12.1%


  4. Randolph, IN township 10.2%


  5. Franconia, NH town 10.1%


  6. Topsham, VT town 10.0%


  7. Ryegate, VT town 9.9%


  8. Plainfield, VT town 9.8%


  9. Saratoga Springs, UT town 9.7%


  10. Barnet, VT town 9.5%



Welsh




  1. Malad City, ID city 21.1


  2. Remsen, NY town 14.6


  3. Oak Hill, OH village 13.6


  4. Madison, OH township 12.7


  5. Steuben, NY town 10.9


  6. Franklin, OH township 10.5


  7. Plymouth, PA borough 10.3


  8. Jackson, OH city 10.0


  9. Lake, PA township 9.9


  10. Radnor, OH township 9.8



History



Overview


The British diaspora consists of the scattering of British people and their descendants who emigrated from the United Kingdom. The diaspora is concentrated in countries that had mass migration such as the United States and that are part of the English-speaking world. A 2006 publication from the Institute for Public Policy Research estimated 5.6 million British-born people lived outside of the United Kingdom.[41][42]


After the Age of Discovery the British were one of the earliest and largest communities to emigrate out of Europe, and the British Empire's expansion during the first half of the 19th century saw an "extraordinary dispersion of the British people", with particular concentrations "in Australasia and North America".[43]


The British Empire was "built on waves of migration overseas by British people",[44] who left the United Kingdom and "reached across the globe and permanently affected population structures in three continents".[43] As a result of the British colonization of the Americas, what became the United States was "easily the greatest single destination of emigrant British".[43]


Historically in the 1790 United States Census estimate and presently in Australia, Canada and New Zealand "people of British origin came to constitute the majority of the population" contributing to these states becoming integral to the Anglosphere.[44]



Colonial period


Main article: British colonization of the Americas

An English presence in North America began with the Roanoke Colony and Colony of Virginia in the late-16th century, but the first successful English settlement was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown. By the 1610s an estimated 1,300 English people had travelled to North America, the "first of many millions from the British Isles".[45] In 1620 the Pilgrims established the English imperial venture of Plymouth Colony, beginning "a remarkable acceleration of permanent emigration from England" with over 60% of trans-Atlantic English migrants settling in the New England Colonies.[45] During the 17th century an estimated 350,000 English and Welsh migrants arrived in North America, which in the century after the Acts of Union 1707 was surpassed in rate and number by Scottish and Irish migrants.[46]





John Trumbull's famous painting, Declaration of Independence. Most of the Founding Fathers had British ancestors.


The British policy of salutary neglect for its North American colonies intended to minimize trade restrictions as a way of ensuring they stayed loyal to British interests.[47] This permitted the development of the American Dream, a cultural spirit distinct from that of its European founders.[47] The Thirteen Colonies of British America began an armed rebellion against British rule in 1775 when they rejected the right of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation; they proclaimed their independence in 1776, and subsequently constituted the first thirteen states of the United States of America, which became a sovereign state in 1781 with the ratification of the Articles of Confederation. The 1783 Treaty of Paris represented Great Britain's formal acknowledgement of the United States' sovereignty at the end of the American Revolutionary War.[48]


In the original 13 colonies, most laws contained elements found in the English common law system.[49]


The majority—97%-- of the Founding Fathers of the United States were of mixed British extraction. English extraction characterised 57%, Scottish were 16%, 19% were Irish or Scots-Irish, and 5% were Welsh. A minority were of high social status and can be classified as White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP). Many of the prewar WASP elite were Loyalists who left the new nation.[50]





Uncle Sam embracing John Bull, while Britannia and Columbia hold hands and sit together in the background (1898).



Immigration after 1776













































































British immigration to the U.S. 1820-2000
Period
 Arrivals
 Period
 Arrivals
 Period
 Arrivals
1820-1830 27,489 1901-1910 525,950 1981-1990 159,173
1831-1840 75,810 1911-1920 341,408 1991-2000 151,866
1841-1850 267,044 1921-1930 339,570
1851-1860 423,974 1931-1940 31,572
1861-1870 606,896 1941-1950 139,306
1871-1880 548,043 1951-1960 202,824
1881-1890 807,357 1961-1970 213,822
1891-1900 271,538 1971-1980 137,374
Total arrivals: 5,271,016[51][52][53][54]

Nevertheless, longstanding cultural and historical ties have, in more modern times, resulted in the Special Relationship, the exceptionally close political, diplomatic and military co-operation of United Kingdom – United States relations.[55]Linda Colley, a professor of history at Princeton University and specialist in Britishness, suggested that because of their colonial influence on the United States, the British find Americans a "mysterious and paradoxical people, physically distant but culturally close, engagingly similar yet irritatingly different".[56]


For over two centuries (1789-1989) of early American history, all Presidents with the exception of two (Van Buren and Kennedy) were descended from the varied colonial British stock, from the Pilgrims and Puritans to the Scotch-Irish and English who settled the Appalachia.[57]



Cultural roots


Much of American culture shows influences from nation states of British culture. Colonial ties to Great Britain spread the English language, legal system and other cultural attributes.[58]
Summarised as follows:




  • East Anglia and the Netherlands to Massachusetts - The Exodus of the English Puritans (Pilgrims and Puritans influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture)[59]

  • The South of England to Virginia - The Cavaliers and Indentured Servants (Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture)[60]


  • North Midlands to the Delaware Valley - The Friends' Migration (Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States' industrial culture)[61]


  • Borderlands to the Backcountry - The Flight from North Britain (Scotch-Irish and border English influenced the Western United States' ranch culture and the Southern United States' common agrarian culture)[62]



Historical influence


Apple pie – New England was the first region to experience large-scale English colonization in the early 17th century, beginning in 1620, and it was dominated by East Anglian Calvinists, better known as the Puritans. Baking was a particular favorite of the New Englanders and was the origin of dishes seen today as quintessentially "American", such as apple pie and the oven-roasted Thanksgiving turkey.[63] "As American as apple pie" is a well-known phrase used to suggest that something is all-American.



Automakers


Buick – David Dunbar Buick was a Scottish-born American, a Detroit-based inventor, best known for founding the Buick Motor Company.



Motorcycle manufacturer




Founders of Harley-Davidson, from left: William A. Davidson, Walter Davidson, Sr., Arthur Davidson and William S. Harley.


Harley-Davidson – The Davidson brothers were of Scottish descent (William. A., Walter and Arthur Davidson) and William S. Harley of English descent. Along with Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company was the largest and most recognizable American motorcycle manufacturer.[64]



Sports


Main article: Origins of baseball

Baseball - The earliest recorded game of base-ball for which the original source survives, involved none other than the family of the Prince of Wales, played indoors in London in November 1748. The Prince is reported as playing "Bass-Ball" again in September 1749 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, against Lord Middlesex.[65] The English lawyer William Bray wrote in his diary that he had played a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, also in Surrey.[66][67] English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008.[68][69] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by British immigrants. The first appearance of the term that exists in print was in "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" in 1744, where it is called Base-Ball. Today, Rounders which has been played in England since Tudor times holds a similarity to Baseball. Although, literary references to early forms of "base-ball" in the United Kingdom pre-date use of the term "rounders".[70]



Continental Colours, 1775-1777





Grand union flag with the thirteen stripes representing the Thirteen colonies.


The Grand Union Flag is considered to be the first national flag of the United States.[71] The design consisted of 13 stripes, red and white, representing the original Thirteen Colonies, the canton on the upper left-hand corner bearing the British Union Flag, the red cross of St. George of England with the white cross of St. Andrew of Scotland. The flag was first flown on December 2, 1775 by John Paul Jones (then a Continental Navy lieutenant) on the ship Alfred in Philadelphia).[72]



Place names



Alabama



  • Birmingham after Birmingham, England


Connecticut




  • Essex, Connecticut after Essex, England


  • Greenwich, Connecticut after Greenwich, England


  • Manchester, Connecticut after Manchester, England


  • New London, Connecticut after London, England


  • Norfolk, Connecticut after Norfolk, England



Delaware




  • Dover after Dover, England


  • Kent County, Delaware after Kent, England


  • Wilmington named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain.



Maryland




  • Aberdeen, Maryland after Aberdeen, Scotland


  • Chester, Maryland after Chester, England


  • Chestertown, Maryland after Chester, England


  • Essex, Maryland after Essex, England


  • Glencoe, Maryland after Glencoe, Scotland


  • Hereford, Maryland after Hereford, England


  • Manchester, Maryland after Manchester, England


  • Westminster, Maryland after Westminster, England



Massachusetts




  • Bedford, Massachusetts after Bedford, England


  • Boston after Boston, England[73]


  • Cambridge after the City of Cambridge, England[74]


  • Falmouth, Massachusetts after Falmouth, England


  • Gloucester after Gloucester, England


  • Hampshire County, Massachusetts after Hampshire, England


  • Middlesex County, Massachusetts after Middlesex, England


  • Plymouth, Massachusetts after Plymouth, England


  • Southampton after Southampton, England[75]


  • Suffolk County, Massachusetts after Suffolk, England


  • Swansea, Massachusetts after Swansea, Wales


  • Weymouth, Massachusetts after Weymouth, Dorset, England


  • Worcester, Massachusetts after Worcester, England



New Hampshire




  • New Hampshire state (after Hampshire[76])


  • Derry, New Hampshire after Derry, Northern Ireland


  • Durham, New Hampshire after Durham, England


  • Exeter, New Hampshire after Exeter, England


  • Londonderry, New Hampshire after Londonderry, Northern Ireland


  • Manchester after Manchester, England[77]


  • New London, New Hampshire after London, England


  • Plymouth, New Hampshire after Plymouth, England


  • Portsmouth, New Hampshire after Portsmouth, England



Pennsylvania




  • Bucks County after Buckinghamshire, England


  • Chester County and Chester after Chester, England


  • Carlisle, Pennsylvania after Carlisle, England


  • Darby derived from Derby (pronounced "Darby"), the county town of Derbyshire (pronounced "Darbyshire")[78]


  • Lancaster County and Lancaster after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright, one of the early settlers.[79]


  • Reading, Berks County after Reading, Berkshire, England


  • Warminster after a small town in the county of Wiltshire, at the western extremity of Salisbury Plain, England.[80]


  • York, Pennsylvania after York, England



Virginia




  • Crewe, Virginia after Crewe, England


  • Dumfries, Virginia after Dumfries, Scotland


  • Edinburg, Virginia after Edinburgh, Scotland


  • Falmouth, Virginia after Falmouth, England


  • Isle of Wight County, Virginia after Isle of Wight, England


  • Kilmarnock, Virginia after Kilmarnock, Scotland


  • Glasgow, Virginia after Glasgow, Scotland


  • Gloucester, Virginia after Gloucester, England


  • Richmond, Virginia and Richmond County, Virginia after Richmond, London


  • Lancaster County, Virginia after Lancashire, England


  • Midlothian, Virginia after Midlothian, Scotland


  • New Kent County, Virginia after Kent County, England


  • Norfolk, Virginia after Norfolk, England


  • Northampton County, Virginia after Northampton, England


  • Northumberland County, Virginia after Northumberland, England


  • Portsmouth, Virginia after Portsmouth, England


  • Stafford, Virginia after Stafford, England


  • Suffolk, Virginia after Suffolk, England


  • Westmoreland County, Virginia after Westmoreland (now part of Cumbria, England


  • Winchester, Virginia after Winchester, England


In addition, some places were named after the kings and queens of the former kingdoms of England and Ireland. The name Virginia was first applied by Queen Elizabeth I (the "Virgin Queen") and Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.,[81] the Carolinas were named after King Charles I and Maryland named so for his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria (Queen Mary).[82]



See also




  • Anglo-Celtic Australians

  • Hyphenated American

  • English diaspora

  • List of English Americans

  • List of Scots-Irish Americans

  • List of Scottish Americans

  • List of Welsh Americans



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External links



  • 1980 U.S. Census ancestry lists

  • References

  • 2000 Census Bureau ancestry figures










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