Assume that America is about 15% English. Assume Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are 40%. That amounts to about 75 million diaspora English as against 45 million English English. The two million English of 1450 have more descendants than the ~20 million French of the same year
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Replying to @crimkadid
Except America is about 8% English and 5% French. Are you counting Quebecois in the French?
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Replying to @tedfrank
Anyone who takes the 8% number at face value needs their head examined. I shouldn't have to spell out why census identification is so inaccurate here: where do you think all identified "Americans" in the South came from?
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Replying to @Cuberdon75 @tedfrank
Not even close:pic.twitter.com/OEerWlQYvG
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Replying to @crimkadid @tedfrank
That table is for 1790. Three times as many arrived in the 19th c.
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Replying to @Cuberdon75 @tedfrank
You're making shit up, Scotch-Irish migration was effectively over by 1775.
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Replying to @crimkadid @tedfrank
Transatlantic flows were halted by the American Revolution, but resumed after 1783, with total of 100,000 arriving in America between 1783 and 1812. By that point few were young servants and more were mature craftsmen, and they settled in industrial centers, including Pittsburgh
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Philadelphia and New York, where many became skilled workers, foremen and entrepreneurs as the Industrial Revolution took off in the US. Another half million came to America 1815 to 1845; another 900,000 came in 1851–99.That migration decisively shaped S-Irish culture. (Wiki)
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Somehow I don't think there were enough Scotch Irish arriving in the South in the nineteenth century to more than triple their share of the populationpic.twitter.com/tWyNIxzjxO
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