White ethnic

White ethnic is a term used to refer to white Americans who are not Old Stock or white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. While many people believe this phenomenon, the category of White Americans does not function as an ethnic group, as seen through American history and the census. They consist of a number of distinct groups and make up approximately 69.4% of the white population in the United States. The term usually refers to the descendants of immigrants from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, Ireland, the Caucasus and France/Francophone Canada. Italian Americans, Polish Americans, Russian Americans, Czech Americans and Slovak Americans, Hungarian Americans and Austrian Americans are considered white ethnic.

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