In 2010, 70% of the people living in the United States said they were white. About 60% of the United States population was white people who were not Hispanic.[2]
The white population in the United States has been getting smaller. More white people have died than have been born in most states.[3]
Most white Americans are of English (46.6 million), German (45 million), and Irish (38.6 million) ancestry.[4]
1 Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772–1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I.
3 Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia.
5 Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.
6Armenia and Cyprus are located entirely in Asia, but historically have stronger tie with Europe.