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Baltimore
British/American 11.4% German 10.6% Irish 8% Italian 4.8% Buffalo German 16.1% Italian 13.6% Polish 12.6% Irish 9.9% British/American 9.4% Cleveland German 13.2% British/American 10.3% Irish 9% Italian 8.1% Polish 5.6% Detroit British/American 11.4% German 10.4% Polish 7.4% Irish 6% Italian 4.9% Los Angeles British/American 6.3% German 3.7% Irish 2.8% Miami British/American 7.7% Italian 4.2% German 3.2% Irish 3.2% Minneapolis-St. Paul German 23.2% Scandinavian 14.9% British/American 7.1% Irish 6.1% Pittsburgh German 18.8% Italian 13.1% British/American 11.8% Irish 9.9% Polish 5.9% Providence Portuguese 12.4% Italian 12.2% Irish 11.9% French/French Canadian 10.8% British/American 10% San Francisco British/American 7.7% German 5.3% Irish 4.9% Seattle British/American 13.2% German 11% Scandinavian 6.9% Irish 6.3% Washington British/American 11.1% German 6.6% Irish 6.1% |
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I was thinking more about eastern European immigrant groups that have been here for a long time... Polish, Slovaks, Lituanians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, etc.... mainly Catholic in the US. |
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Cincinnati
German 23.3% British/American 17% Irish 7.6% Milwaukee German 27% Polish 7.4% British/American 5.3% Irish 5.1% St. Louis German 22.4% British/American 14% Irish 7.4% |
^ damn, the german triangle indeed!
i take it those are MSA numbers and not city proper, right? and now i want some sauerbraten with spatzle and rotkohl. |
As per my research via Nicki Minaj, the biggest WAP city is Miami.
The least WAP city? Probably some bible study town in Kansas. |
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The NE US is not even close to being majority WASP, as they're only a small percentage of the population at this point, but the whole regional culture (at least for white people of all origins) is very WASP-normative as you say. People of all origins going along with it, or at least its contemporary incarnation. (Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it's Plymouth Mass. in 1642.) For someone from a place where lapsed Latin Catholicism exists in a purer form and is fairly dominant, it's fascinating to see the WASP-influenced (relative) conservatism of, say, Italian-Americans in NE on social matters like booze, dress, etc. Multiply that by 100 when you compare it to a place like present-day Italy. |
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But interesting to note the difference between the upper German Triangle (Milwaukee) from the lower.
British Isles ancestry is quite rare in Wisconsin and Minnesota but pretty common in the lower Midwest. Also, note that high German ancestry is one thing that all the Midwest has in common. Whether it's in the river cities, Great Lakes cities, the corn belt or the Great Plains. The Midwest (and Pennsylvania) stand out. |
Italian Americans, even though they're pretty much "made it" in America, are quite under-represented in the "establishmentarian" circles of the Northeast, given their numbers there. Certainly less so than Jews and Irish Americans (and increasingly Asians).
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Utah has far more English Protestants than Mass or CT do, but Coastal New England is still way more WASP-y. As for the least WASP-y metro in the country, it's gotta be Honolulu or San Juan, no? |
In the continental US, I would guess that it would be either Los Angeles or Miami. Both have very large non-white populations and have been settled more recently than some of the older cities.
In the US as a whole, I would guess that it would be Honolulu, though I have never been. |
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Boston 24% Chicago 22% Philadelphia 22% New York 19% https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/ Given how much whiter Boston is - and its white ethnic composition - you'd expect it to be well ahead of the others in terms of the % of white Catholics. People with no religion (34%) actually outnumber Catholics (29%) in metro Boston, and it looks more "West Coast" like now in terms of irreligiosity than the other big northern cities. That's quite the sea change. Boston was probably the most Catholic city in America at one time. |
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Miami is probably the least WASPy city that I've experienced.
Most white people in Miami are Hispanic and thus, clearly not Anglo-Saxon... and the majority are Catholic, though there are sizeable numbers of Protestant Hispanics as well. Most other white people seem to be Jews, Europeans, or tourists. The preppy white crowd doesn't really fit in. Miami has WASPy beginnings, and long served as a wintering retreat for a WASPy crowd from the north, but that hasn't been prevalent since the white glory days of the 1950s. |
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Sure, things have certainly changed over the centuries, but there is a social equality identity (at least in theory, if not in full practice) that originated in Philly. The focus on diversity within the collective, the common good, the lack of ostentation, the value placed on labor and trades... there's a reason organized labor has its origins in Pennsylvania dating to the early 1700s. |
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Does anyone know how close we are to the inflection point when latino catholics outnumber non-latino catholics in the US?
Chicago has a long and strong european-immigrant catholic heritage (irish, poles, italians, and a large percentage of the germans as well), but the huge influx of mexican catholic immigrants over the past handful of decades has kept many chicago parishes alive that would've otherwise closed. I'm sure that phenomenon is not unique among the big catholic cities. |
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Chicago 41% New York 40% Philadelphia 35% Boston 33% |
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