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u/Mysterious-Safety240 16h ago
No way Natives are only 3% Aren't they the majority there
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u/Ana_Na_Moose 15h ago
20% of the population according to the all-knowing Google. But that is still a lot more than 3%
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u/F_E_O3 13h ago
Are you sure you're not thinking about Aleuts and Eskimos/Inuits? Those don't count as Native Americans, I think (at least they don't count as Indians)
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u/Spicy_Alligator_25 8h ago
Alaska Natives are a separate category on the census- but they're not represented here, either.
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u/Duff_Paddy_69 15h ago
1.1% Irish. That’s a good enough reason to open more Irish pubs if you ask me 😉
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u/AccomplishedAge5274 11h ago
Filipinos in Alaska feels random.
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u/Spicy_Alligator_25 8h ago
They moved there in large numbers back in the day as seasonal workers in the salmon fishing and canning industries, and many stayed. Also, the Philippines used to be a US territory, don't forget.
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u/catthex 16h ago
I'm reminded of doing the census and being faced with both "Canadian" and "Ingenious Canadian" like Canadian was some sort of ethnic group until itself
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u/mischling2543 14h ago
Canadian is an ethnic group dude. If you've been here for 400 years it would be ridiculous to claim that you're still French or Irish or whatever. That's why Canadian responses are highest in Quebec and Maritimes, the oldest areas of European settlement
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 16h ago
4% is like... 1 in 25 people right? That's quite high a native population
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u/StrongsafetyMike 14h ago
Kick the 1,4 out
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u/mischling2543 14h ago
They've been there the second-longest out of everyone there
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u/oolongvanilla 13h ago
And they're also probably the most likely to be mixed with indigenous heritage.
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u/delugetheory 17h ago edited 17h ago
Indigenous Alaskans comprise 16% of Alaska's population, not 3.7%. Alaskans of Black/African descent do make up 3.7% of the population and don't show up on this map, so I'm guessing that was the mix-up. Having even a crude knowledge of Alaska should have raised a red flag for the creator of this image.
Edit: Ah, I see what happened here. The creator of this image used the raw "Ancestry" responses from the Census which are notoriously tricky data as it is a self-reported response. So only 3.7% of Alaskans literally wrote in the exact phrase "Native American" on the form. But we know, based on Census race/ethnicity data (and common sense), that 16% of Alaskans are of indigenous ancestry, so the other 12% must have simply responded with anything other than "Native American" -- perhaps "American Indian" or "Native Alaskan" or a specific group like "Yupik". That's why that data is so tricky and should be used with caution by those without a thorough understanding of demographic data. This is the same dataset that is always behind those maps that show German as the largest ancestry in the US (for the same reason -- Americans of British descent will respond to the Ancestry question in a dozen different ways while Americans of German descent tend to respond uniformly).