A chart of the top reported ancestries in the US, as provided by the 2000 census. Shaded color represents the largest number of respondents (a plurality) from sample. Areas with the largest "American" ancestry populations were mostly settled by English, French, Welsh, Scottish and Irish.  (Above explanatory text originally by users Quasipalm and W.marsh.)  Based on page 8 of <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf">https://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf</a> , processed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pstoedit" class="extiw" title="en:pstoedit">pstoedit</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skencil" class="extiw" title="en:Skencil">skconvert</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape" class="extiw" title="en:Inkscape">Inkscape</a>.  Intended to replace other versions like  *<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg" title="File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg">Image:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg</a> *<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.png" title="File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.png">Image:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.png</a>  Also, these derived images should be replaced by new versions derived from this one: *<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County-german.jpg" title="File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County-german.jpg">Image:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County-german.jpg</a> *<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image-Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County_fr_FR.png" title="File:Image-Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County fr FR.png">Image:Image-Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County fr_FR.png</a> *<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-State.jpg" title="File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-State.jpg">Image:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-State.jpg</a>
<ul><li>derivative work: <small><span style="border:1px solid #955619;padding:1px;"><font style="color:#955619;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Louis_Waweru" title="User:Louis Waweru"><b>Louis Waweru</b></a></font> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Louis_Waweru" title="User talk:Louis Waweru"><font style="color:#FFFFFF;background:#955619;"> Talk </font></a></span></small></li>
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