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British Americans have )''. British American or American? Many British Americans have ancestry in America that dates back to Colonial Times in the 17th and 18th Centuries . With their roots being in America for such a long period, many British Americans and a significant number of Irish Americans have begun to think of themselves ancestrally simply as "Americans." This is especially true in The South . In American society, Hyphenated-Americanism prevails because so much of the population has relatively recent roots elsewhere. Many other Americans are uncertain about the relative proportions in their own ancestry or have forgotten the origins of their distant ancestors, or prefer to identify with the ethnicity of ancestors who arrived more recently, which provide more distinctive folkways than the general American culture. Even as prominent a figure as Senator John Kerry , scion on his mother's side of an old British American family, was astonished to discover his father's father had been born Jewish in Europe, and on coming to America chose an Irish name and became Catholic. England, Scotland and Wales sent millions of immigrants to America after 1776. They assimilated quite rapidly. Number of British Americans In the 2000 Census, 36.4 million Americans reported British ancestry. These include:
These figures make British Americans one of the largest "ethnic" groups in the U.S. when counted collectively (although the Census Bureau does not count them collectively, as each of the above is a separate ethnic group, that is English or Scottish or Welsh or Scotch-Irish). The Germans and Irish are the largest self-reported ethnic groups in the nation but some experts consider British ancestry the most common. Scholarly Sources
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