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Originally Posted by Chef
The upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas) is one of the whitest regions of the country but not very English. It goes back to the settlement after the Civil War. In much of the rest of the country the pioneers were predominantly people from back east of British descent with some immigrants mixed in. In the upper Midwest the first wave of pioneers on the land were much more heavily weighted towards German and Scandinavian immigrants so there were far fewer Anglo-Americans.
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My wife (native Texan) lived in South Dakota for a few years and was taken aback how everyone looked like her; blonde, light complexion.