I think it’s more because about the entire nation fucked off to the US because our friendly neighbours nearly killed us. And then later in the 80’s because the nation was in shambles, and then in ’22 because there is nowhere to live.
There’s also an element of the vikings taking women with them as they moved around. Iceland has a fair bit of Irish genetics because of that.
It says relative to population. So I’d say a lot of it has to do with us losing a lot of population to emmigrstko.
You are aware of the Famine, yes?
Emigration, more likely. Although we are quite fuckable!
Why do Americans do this? It’s like if an Irish person descended from Normans called themselves French.
This looks wrong at first glance, there are way too many Hispanics in America for Spain to be so light.
I once read that that in the 1850s there were more people born in Ireland living outside of Ireland than there were in Ireland itself. Toronto at one point had a population where the majority were born in Ireland and many of them moved on through to the US. So all of this should come as no surprise.
What do the colours represent?
It’s mad how the ones closest to America are the darkest
So… we’re 611% of… something?
Take that Denmark!
We’re like an entire island of Genghis Khans
Coming from an American, I doubt 611%. A lot of people living here just don’t know their ancestry in any intimate way, so a lot of people just say Irish because everyone else does.
Not saying it’s a low number, oh no, but it definitely should not be that high.
This just seems like a fantastically stupid way of reporting data. If I’m reading this right it just says that 30 million americans (out of 330 million) report having Irish ancestry according to some survey? Of course like all this dumb MapPorn stuff it’s completely unsourced so it’s doubly meaningless.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
I think it’s more because about the entire nation fucked off to the US because our friendly neighbours nearly killed us. And then later in the 80’s because the nation was in shambles, and then in ’22 because there is nowhere to live.
There’s also an element of the vikings taking women with them as they moved around. Iceland has a fair bit of Irish genetics because of that.
It says relative to population. So I’d say a lot of it has to do with us losing a lot of population to emmigrstko.
You are aware of the Famine, yes?
Emigration, more likely. Although we are quite fuckable!
Why do Americans do this? It’s like if an Irish person descended from Normans called themselves French.
This looks wrong at first glance, there are way too many Hispanics in America for Spain to be so light.
I once read that that in the 1850s there were more people born in Ireland living outside of Ireland than there were in Ireland itself. Toronto at one point had a population where the majority were born in Ireland and many of them moved on through to the US. So all of this should come as no surprise.
What do the colours represent?
It’s mad how the ones closest to America are the darkest
So… we’re 611% of… something?
Take that Denmark!
We’re like an entire island of Genghis Khans
Coming from an American, I doubt 611%. A lot of people living here just don’t know their ancestry in any intimate way, so a lot of people just say Irish because everyone else does.
Not saying it’s a low number, oh no, but it definitely should not be that high.
This just seems like a fantastically stupid way of reporting data. If I’m reading this right it just says that 30 million americans (out of 330 million) report having Irish ancestry according to some survey? Of course like all this dumb MapPorn stuff it’s completely unsourced so it’s doubly meaningless.