census data: most common ethnic group, by county

[jrtom]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg

I would not have expected "German" to be nearly so prevalent.

Of course, now I really want a tool that gives me histograms (or pie charts, or whatever) for each county.

Comments

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

I guess it's based on what people actually answer. Looking at the census table (http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ancestry/ancestry_q_by_DAC_2000.xls), some people do say European (likewise, Canadian), but not in large enough numbers to be the top group in a county.