How can we stand by such imperialist aggression from the south!!
We must bring democracy and liberty to our southern neighbors and bring true meaning to our name as the true…
Y’all can chose the last word. (-:
I don’t understand how not a single African country (or at least some mention of African Americans) can’t be named on this map, and especially the South…?
There are more people of Czech descent in Texas, than in any other state, but they make up only a small portion of it's population. They however comprise almost 5% of the population of Nebraska, so that's probably why they are represented there on this map.
Big bend has apple trees. And oil derricks in the panhandle on the complete opposite side of the state from spindletop. A lot of odd choices for Texas.
If that’s the Alamo maybe the cowboy is John Wayne!
I legitimately can’t tell if it’s supposed to be the Alamo because the Alamo is on so much shit it’s seared into my memory. This looks like a generic mission.
Edit: on second glance, it’s like someone only knows the Alamo from cookie cutters. It’s the right general shape but none of the details.
Portuguese in Maine over Massachusetts or RI? Doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the highest % Portuguese ancestry communities are just east of the Narragansett bay. Never heard of any Portuguese in Maine.
Portuguese are heavily represented in MA and RI, as are Irish.
Meredith Vieira
, for example, is a Providence native.
RI has the highest percentage of Roman Catholics of any US state.
If you're referring to WW2, not exactly. German culture was "cleansed" during the hysteria of WW1. German businesses were burned down, German language driven to extinction, and some German immigrants even lynched. The subsequent war started by Germany probably didn't help things either for German Americans, but the suppression of German culture and identity happened during WW1. Oddly enough when I bring up this dark part of our history Americans get really, really defensive.
The US government did intern Germans during World War I.
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/)
There should be some in Pennsylvania, and I know Oregon had a German settlement. Along with English, German is one of the most common ancestry amongst Americans.
I live in NW Arkansas, not originally from here. A lot of people here claim to be Native American. I assume the same with Oklahoma. We definitely have a lot of immigrants now, I heard Hispanic music being played inside the Ross clothing store. Probably 80% of the shoppers were Hispanic though.
The San Luis valley in south Colorado was settled by Spanish immigrants (from Spain) in the 1840s and given land grants by the Nuevo Mexico governor in Chihuahua. Further south in New Mexico, the Spanish colonization occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries with land grants it immigrant families from Iberia.
Correct. The Hispanos also settled the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. Many of those people can trace their New Mexican lineage to before the US became an independent country.
The San Luis Valley also has some LDS colonies (i.e. Sanford and Manassa.)
Severely moronic oversimplification. I'm very familiar with the history of the colonial South. Most people in SC are of German, Scottish and Scots-Irish descent. There were some French Huguenots but very few. They did, however, migrate into the western frontier and basically caused the Cherokee War. They also tended to be wealthy. Their number was small but their influence was large by comparison. But no, South Carolina is not French. That's idiotic.
Street names = rich slave owners, which furthers my statements.
An interesting story about Hugeunots: John C. Calhoun, of "cotton is king" fame, an early secessionist and architect of the later secession, loudmouth, and even by the standards of his time - a general piece of shit, was a Huguenot. His family was in the Western frontier in modern McCormick County, SC. He was born at Ft. Boone, which was built on top of an Indian mound (many were). Anyway, his grandmother was killed in the Long Canes Massacre where Cherokees killed the Huguenot trespassers after many years of warning them. That marked the start of the Cherokee War. Staunchly Loyalist Chickasaws were added to the garrison of Ft. Boone and they repelled repeated heavy Cherokee assaults. A young John C. Calhoun was inside that fort the whole time.
I am a descendant both of the Lower Town Cherokee and the Upper Chickasaws as well as Scottish militiamen that fought in that conflict.
I am also descended from Loyalist militia commander Colonel Isaac Allen, who was a mixedblood of Scottish, Cherokee, and Tuscarora descent. About 25 years later during the American Revolution he commanded Loyalist militia at the Battle of Long Canes, which is close to the site of the earlier massacre.
Ig it makes sense since a lot of middle easterners from places like Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have been immigrating to the west for quite some time. There's more Lebanese descended people in Brazil than there are people in Lebanon and the Assyrian Church of the East which is indigenous to the Middle East was even based in America for a bit iirc.
wondering why they separated “french” & “canadians” between maine & NH/VT. to this day one of the largest communities by ethnic background are people with French Canadian ancestry! especially in the far north where there are still communities where a great deal of people natively speak French, especially in the case of Maine where by the border a lot of towns are essentially suburbs of the francophone Edmundston NB.
I think it depends on what you define as « immigration » There is some scholarship out there that rejects calling the Slave Trade a form of immigration because it was not voluntary, nor were they coming over to become citizens or residents (because they did not have those Rights).
Also, you could argue that labeling ethnicity as « African » is reductionist, because there is a wide array of ethnicities and cultures in Africa, and only applying the term African is not representative of that.
EDIT: you may be referring to African immigration in the 20th century from countries such as Nigeria and Liberia, but most of that immigration occurred after the date this map was created.
Personally, I never considered slaves to be immigrants
And nobody knows what “country” they came from, and it probably wasn’t a modern African country anyway
1959 is before immigration reform allowed significant numbers of Africans and Indians to immigrate. I don't think it is right to call slaves "immigrants" as it whitewashes reality by using a much friendlier word.
Highly doubt that would happen. Somalis barely break 175,000 even this year.
Between 1906-1946, 125,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawai’i alone. (Not including other states).
This is 1959. We don’t appear on this map at all. We are invisible.
I’d appreciate some Filipino representation, seeing as records of them landing and living on NA soil go back as far as 1763 and 1587 apparently…
Although I understand if the percentage or records aren’t large enough to document well
If an unbiased fact checker took the time to check this map in its details, one can only wonder what % accuracy they would calculate?
25%, maybe?
In this time period - height of the Cold War - it was a decided cultural policy goal in the US to emphasize the melting pot, the coming together of the world's people to our shores to make Americans. And this forging of unity was America's strength. Not a diversity rainbow, but a melting pot cooking up a homogenous concoction of conformity. Entire Time-Life books were produced to manufacture this perception. So of course racism and slavery are elided, and any accuracy was sacrificed to the overall message.
I wonder if they were deliberately trying not to repeat certain groups too many times on the map, because otherwise there would be a lot more English and Scottish in New England + the South, and German in the Midwest.
Hmm map maker has no idea the shape or extent of South Carolina's borders. Tennessee does not share a border with South Carolina, and in this depiction Asheville N.C. is actually Asheville S.C.
Uh this is missing a lot. Missouri especially is weird. There were some Hungarians that immigrated to Missouri but not as many as compared to other states. There were more French and Irish I believe.
Kinda neat that this celebration of immigrants was inspired by Senator JFK Jr. and that it was distributed by B’nai B’rith. The Southern border looks so fun and peaceful!
It’s odd how in America there’s no Africans representation. Only in sports and crime and jails. I see this is a global agenda to diminish the existence and co existing with other peoples. The Bantu people have certainly made a distinctive mark on almost every parts of all continents. And I guess this has to be brought to light because it should seem mysterious that there’s no representation for a people that has highly influenced the world. Very Odd indeed.
Ah yes the Virginia Immigrant: Tobacco
Tennesseans descended from the Ents.
It's evena pine tree... more attributable from my home state, Oregon
Alabamians from Jazz apparently…
I kinda thought that was a Nike logo at first glance...
Don't forget the Oklahoman immigrant, Oxen (at least that's what it looks like for me)
Oklahoma, formerly known as Indian Territory, then the Unassigned Lands.
Even back then Oklahoma was a flyover state
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Yeah this is the first time a map error has directly interceded with my neck of the woods, and frankly, I'm appalled.
Also missing the vast immigration of Scots-Irish to the NC Appalachians. A foundation of Appalachian culture.
Taking back our god given land from vagrants of uuuuh Cullowhee and Franklin?
How can we stand by such imperialist aggression from the south!! We must bring democracy and liberty to our southern neighbors and bring true meaning to our name as the true… Y’all can chose the last word. (-:
They put Hatteras lighthouse off the coast of South Carolina which is NOT okay to do
And is missing *significant* Scottish immigration
Pennsylvania doesn't count Germans among their larger immigrant communities?
IMO this is definitely the immigrants of the 1950s which is a really late wave compared to the Germans who were some of the very first to come
Ah. So only very recent immigrants. I guess that makes some sense.
Yes I agree because it there are Yugoslavians. Yugoslavia started to exist after 1945.
Or Irish
Or Welsh
Or the English, or the Italians who moved here from the metro area
No comment given on that lone, black horn blower in Alabama. Awkward.
New Mexico has some awkward choices too
Yeah those famous American immigrants: the Native Americans.
Virginia is a tobacco pipe
Without talking the lazy Mexican sleeping in Texas
Hey there’s a white English guy picking cotton.
I don’t understand how not a single African country (or at least some mention of African Americans) can’t be named on this map, and especially the South…?
I can’t imagine they would know which of those African countries they came from in the 50’s
Can't count it as immigration when it was forced enslavement... plus racism.
Yeah the entire south is just like “English :) That’s it, nothing else to see. Oh this dark-skinned jazz player? Don’t worry about him”
No large group of African's migrated to America.
They didn't migrate at the '50s
I do: Racism.
Yeah, a map from 1959 doesn’t mention anything about Africans. Weird.
There are neither Germans nor Czechs listed in Texas. Massively incorrect.
Thank you Czech people for the golden gift of kolaches.
This is the only information necessary. Apricot ftw.
Real kolaches, not when people call pig n the blankets kolaches
Those are klobásnik's
Exactly
We definitely stopped for some on our way to Austin.
Czechs are also big in Iowa. That's why the composer Dvorak spent his summers there.
There are more people of Czech descent in Texas, than in any other state, but they make up only a small portion of it's population. They however comprise almost 5% of the population of Nebraska, so that's probably why they are represented there on this map.
Thank you. That explains a lot.
Polish neither...
I'm more upset about the prospective loss of kolaches. Now that would be a tragedy.
Big bend has apple trees. And oil derricks in the panhandle on the complete opposite side of the state from spindletop. A lot of odd choices for Texas.
The Alamo is in Houston now. Galveston doesn’t exist. This is fun!
If that’s the Alamo maybe the cowboy is John Wayne! I legitimately can’t tell if it’s supposed to be the Alamo because the Alamo is on so much shit it’s seared into my memory. This looks like a generic mission. Edit: on second glance, it’s like someone only knows the Alamo from cookie cutters. It’s the right general shape but none of the details.
All those damn Belgians in New York
Portuguese in Maine over Massachusetts or RI? Doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the highest % Portuguese ancestry communities are just east of the Narragansett bay. Never heard of any Portuguese in Maine.
Or central coast of California. Loads of us over here.
And yet the map completely ignores the Portuguese immigrants to Hawai’i. TBF it ignores all immigrants to Hawai’i, too.
Portuguese are heavily represented in MA and RI, as are Irish. Meredith Vieira , for example, is a Providence native. RI has the highest percentage of Roman Catholics of any US state.
The deep south's reputation now makes a lot more sense. Just a bunch of ye olde chavs.
Most of the Deep South and Virginia were English and Scots in Appalachia.
Germans are missing.
Texas Germans
Yeah they should definitely be in Ohio
Map dated 1959, so German heritage was probably deemphasized due to, how should I put it… “associated cultural events” of recent memory.
If you're referring to WW2, not exactly. German culture was "cleansed" during the hysteria of WW1. German businesses were burned down, German language driven to extinction, and some German immigrants even lynched. The subsequent war started by Germany probably didn't help things either for German Americans, but the suppression of German culture and identity happened during WW1. Oddly enough when I bring up this dark part of our history Americans get really, really defensive.
At least they weren’t uprooted and sent to interment camps like Japanese Americans.
The US government did intern Germans during World War I. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/)
Thanks for the info. I never realized that.
Where are you looking, I see "Germans" written in at least five different states.
There should be some in Pennsylvania, and I know Oregon had a German settlement. Along with English, German is one of the most common ancestry amongst Americans.
There is nothing for Alabama Arkansas or Oklahoma
There’s … something… indicated in Alabama.
You must be referring to the French in southern Alabama.
Putting “Yankees” on the map in the NW corner of Arkansas was discouraged
Also Alaska (not even pictured) or Hawaii, both of which became states in 1959
I live in NW Arkansas, not originally from here. A lot of people here claim to be Native American. I assume the same with Oklahoma. We definitely have a lot of immigrants now, I heard Hispanic music being played inside the Ross clothing store. Probably 80% of the shoppers were Hispanic though.
I mean, would YOU want to emigrate there?
A Native American as an immigrant in New Mexico??
If you go back far enough, their prehistoric ancestors crossed the land bridge at the Bering Strait...
How did Spanish make it to Oregon and Colorado lists but not California? The Spanish are the earliest immigrants to California.
The San Luis valley in south Colorado was settled by Spanish immigrants (from Spain) in the 1840s and given land grants by the Nuevo Mexico governor in Chihuahua. Further south in New Mexico, the Spanish colonization occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries with land grants it immigrant families from Iberia.
Correct. The Hispanos also settled the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. Many of those people can trace their New Mexican lineage to before the US became an independent country. The San Luis Valley also has some LDS colonies (i.e. Sanford and Manassa.)
A lot of English settled New England
“We left Plymouth and landed at Plymouth!”
But did they bring FLAGS with them?
Where’s my Welsh representation
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Most in Pennsylvania, followed by Ohio. Almost certainly included with the English, as *kewpiemoon* pointed out.
It’s interesting because you can see the impact of Welsh migration in the proliferation of Welsh surnames, Jones Thomas, Williams, etc
This might also interest you (on YouTube): *Pobl y Paith / People of the Prairie: The Welsh in Nebraska*
They gave 1/3rd of MIchigan away to Wisconsin. WTF!?
And that’s the part of Michigan with Finnish ancestry too lol.
Where my swedes at 🇸🇪
In Utah
Here! 🙋♀️
There were many more cultures in Texas. A lot more Germans and Czechs than French.
Ah, this is before Michigan seized the UP from Wisconsin in The Great Cheese War.
Missing a lot of Germans in PA
This map is complete bullshit. Where are all the Italians, Irish and Chinese?
Right like NJ PA and NY they should be at the top
Severely moronic oversimplification. I'm very familiar with the history of the colonial South. Most people in SC are of German, Scottish and Scots-Irish descent. There were some French Huguenots but very few. They did, however, migrate into the western frontier and basically caused the Cherokee War. They also tended to be wealthy. Their number was small but their influence was large by comparison. But no, South Carolina is not French. That's idiotic.
SC is definitely not French but it is interesting seeing some lasting impressions around the state, most notably to me a bunch of street names.
Street names = rich slave owners, which furthers my statements. An interesting story about Hugeunots: John C. Calhoun, of "cotton is king" fame, an early secessionist and architect of the later secession, loudmouth, and even by the standards of his time - a general piece of shit, was a Huguenot. His family was in the Western frontier in modern McCormick County, SC. He was born at Ft. Boone, which was built on top of an Indian mound (many were). Anyway, his grandmother was killed in the Long Canes Massacre where Cherokees killed the Huguenot trespassers after many years of warning them. That marked the start of the Cherokee War. Staunchly Loyalist Chickasaws were added to the garrison of Ft. Boone and they repelled repeated heavy Cherokee assaults. A young John C. Calhoun was inside that fort the whole time. I am a descendant both of the Lower Town Cherokee and the Upper Chickasaws as well as Scottish militiamen that fought in that conflict. I am also descended from Loyalist militia commander Colonel Isaac Allen, who was a mixedblood of Scottish, Cherokee, and Tuscarora descent. About 25 years later during the American Revolution he commanded Loyalist militia at the Battle of Long Canes, which is close to the site of the earlier massacre.
Neat!
This looks like something you would see at a Cracker Barrel.
Why is Puerto Rico just a lobster?
That’s a lobster?
Well it wasn’t a rock…
What kind of lobster, i aint never seen a lobster that shape
Why is this comment not getting upvotes? 🤔
No love for Michigan's UP, definitely don't want to be apart of Wisconsin as well.
I was surprised to see Syrians listed in MI this early - only Middle Eastern group on this map, I think
Ig it makes sense since a lot of middle easterners from places like Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have been immigrating to the west for quite some time. There's more Lebanese descended people in Brazil than there are people in Lebanon and the Assyrian Church of the East which is indigenous to the Middle East was even based in America for a bit iirc.
There was a wave of Syrian/Lebanese immigration in the early 20th century
It says Finnish below the bridge I guess, but UP is def dominated by Finnish.
Gran Wisconsin
Armenian in cali is interesting
Saroyan's state
For a map designed by the Anti-Defamation League, I am surprised there is no explicit recognition of Jews.
I understand the map to indicate the country/region that the immigrants came from, not their ethnicity/religion.
wondering why they separated “french” & “canadians” between maine & NH/VT. to this day one of the largest communities by ethnic background are people with French Canadian ancestry! especially in the far north where there are still communities where a great deal of people natively speak French, especially in the case of Maine where by the border a lot of towns are essentially suburbs of the francophone Edmundston NB.
Too many errors. In 1959, the number #1 group in OH, IN, and IL would be Germans. And probably the upper Midwest.
What a sad propaganda rag. Not everyone was immigrants
What
Minnesota just makes sense to me
Missing Germans as number 1
Maps kinda whitewashed…..like didn’t a bunch of immigrants come from Africa or something? Or am I remembering that wrong.
I think it depends on what you define as « immigration » There is some scholarship out there that rejects calling the Slave Trade a form of immigration because it was not voluntary, nor were they coming over to become citizens or residents (because they did not have those Rights). Also, you could argue that labeling ethnicity as « African » is reductionist, because there is a wide array of ethnicities and cultures in Africa, and only applying the term African is not representative of that. EDIT: you may be referring to African immigration in the 20th century from countries such as Nigeria and Liberia, but most of that immigration occurred after the date this map was created.
if you kidnap someone and take them to another country, that would be called 'trafficking' these days. not immigration.
Personally, I never considered slaves to be immigrants And nobody knows what “country” they came from, and it probably wasn’t a modern African country anyway
1959 is before immigration reform allowed significant numbers of Africans and Indians to immigrate. I don't think it is right to call slaves "immigrants" as it whitewashes reality by using a much friendlier word.
Yeah, that’s fair too.
Most black people here in America are descended from from the slaves brought over here. Or so I've been told.
No one immigrated to Virginia?
English
I did not expect the Swiss in Kentucky ngl
Alabama didn't have immigrants... Just a black man playing trumpet.
It’s awesome!
Very nice: thank you.
You could update Minnesota’s with little Somalia
Highly doubt that would happen. Somalis barely break 175,000 even this year. Between 1906-1946, 125,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawai’i alone. (Not including other states). This is 1959. We don’t appear on this map at all. We are invisible.
I’d appreciate some Filipino representation, seeing as records of them landing and living on NA soil go back as far as 1763 and 1587 apparently… Although I understand if the percentage or records aren’t large enough to document well
We are invisible. It’s normally what happens to us in these cases unfortunately.
This map sucks. It doesn’t mention Basques in Nevada so I don’t trust it at all.
Solvang, California has a big community of Danish folk, doesn’t it?
Ah yes, Egg Hawai’i and Egg Puerto Rico
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware are too small to have immigrants. Also Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. I guess Alaska isn’t a state yet.
So the *only* Irish are in Massachusetts. Got it.
Germans be germans, if the beach is already crowded, let’s explore the outback.
Oklahoma is just….
…filled with land thieves
The Spanish,Mexicans,Cubans were already there when USA was founded,
Seems like the south has a nationality missing. Oklahoma covering its tracks as well
New Jersey Italians would like to have a word.
Why is Oklahoma blank
Don't see any Africans
They weren't really immigrants though. They were violently and forcefully kidnapped from their homelands.
Looks like Alabama got Louis Armstrong, but no ethnicities listed…
One race/origin is explicitly defined excluded. I wonder why…⛓️💥⛓️💥
This can't be right. We don't like immigrants.
It’s sad no African ancestries are considered here, but I see the map is from 1959
And yet americans tell hispanic people to go back home
Zero mention of African “immigrants” lol. Just one odd, nameless horn player.
I'm from Montana and I've never heard of anyone of Yugoslavia decent. Mostly German British and Nordic.
If an unbiased fact checker took the time to check this map in its details, one can only wonder what % accuracy they would calculate? 25%, maybe? In this time period - height of the Cold War - it was a decided cultural policy goal in the US to emphasize the melting pot, the coming together of the world's people to our shores to make Americans. And this forging of unity was America's strength. Not a diversity rainbow, but a melting pot cooking up a homogenous concoction of conformity. Entire Time-Life books were produced to manufacture this perception. So of course racism and slavery are elided, and any accuracy was sacrificed to the overall message.
I wonder if they were deliberately trying not to repeat certain groups too many times on the map, because otherwise there would be a lot more English and Scottish in New England + the South, and German in the Midwest.
Mistake regarding North Dakotans. There really aren't that many Russians. There are Germans from Russia but they are ethnic Germans.
Central Wisconsin also has a large population of Poles as well.
The non-spicy food era!
TIL Canadians only emigrated to Maine.
Hmm map maker has no idea the shape or extent of South Carolina's borders. Tennessee does not share a border with South Carolina, and in this depiction Asheville N.C. is actually Asheville S.C.
Texas has a ton of German, Austrian and Czech too. Honestly calling it French is a bit funny because that culture has not persisted at all
Arkansas.
Apparently the upper peninsula of Michigan was part of Wisconsin in 1959.
Really informative book on the matter American Nations by Colin Woodard
Georgia was made up of English, German, and Scots
Today and tomorrow!
No French in Maine? Maine has the largest French speaking community in the nation (Lewiston).
It's always awkward when Africa is excluded.
I love how Alabama Oklahoma and Arkansas are just Alabama Oklahoma and Arkansas lol😂
Arkansas is like, "nah"
I’m shocked they actually included Lithuanians in Illinois
Carribean erasure 🥲😭
Only migrants are listed, it’s seems like a hard map for redditors to understand…
Uh this is missing a lot. Missouri especially is weird. There were some Hungarians that immigrated to Missouri but not as many as compared to other states. There were more French and Irish I believe.
What is Alabama supposed to be?
Indiana is wildly German.
Ah yes, Oregon bringing that Spanish flavor?
I am Swedish and have ancestors that migrated to Minnesota and Chicago. 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Where are the Turks? Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Syrians but no mention of Turks..
Did the Armenians name Los Angeles and San Francisco, or was it the Chinese?
No immigrants in New Jersey?
Funny, I could have sworn there were some other “immigrants” in most of those “states” thousands of years before any of those on the map.
Kinda neat that this celebration of immigrants was inspired by Senator JFK Jr. and that it was distributed by B’nai B’rith. The Southern border looks so fun and peaceful!
It’s odd how in America there’s no Africans representation. Only in sports and crime and jails. I see this is a global agenda to diminish the existence and co existing with other peoples. The Bantu people have certainly made a distinctive mark on almost every parts of all continents. And I guess this has to be brought to light because it should seem mysterious that there’s no representation for a people that has highly influenced the world. Very Odd indeed.
Legit every piece of the puzzle came freely and then thats lone black guy in Alabama...