Ethnic groups
German-Americans
-biggest settlement group in the United States
-huge numbers of Germans settle the Middle West in the antebellum era
-in addition to city migration
-post-Liberty and Union War (1868-76) this turns into further migration
-especially when German migration to France halts after French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4)
-and with Antillean War (1880-4) and discovery of some measures to stop yellow fever, settlement of South begins apace
-combined with South having massive deficiency in men of marriable age and Germans being suitably white and many Protestant, a lot of young single Germans immigrate into South in this era to get some ladies
-results in a lot of Germans in general immigrating into the South
-urban migration speeds up in this era with about half or so being returnees to Germany afterwards
-final immigration wave comes with French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) before it largely ends
British-Americans
-often broken up by nation
-though following British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) this drops a lot and a lot more people identify themselves as "Britons"
-largely settle frontier most of all
-due to British land companies existing
-buys a lot of land from Bank of the United States > Second Bank of the United States (1828-1868) which quickly booms in size
-with end of Liberty and Union War (1868-76) there are a lot of Scots to emigrate
-due to crofting lands being way smaller than opened lands
-along with their Appalachian cousins help to shape Kances deeply
Laurentian-Americans
-a lot of people move to New England
-with Maine and Vermont both having massive Francophone populations
-fewer Irish Catholics means that they become essentially synonymous with Catholic Church
-and Catholic Church helps them to preserve their culture
Italian-Americans
-much smaller than OTL
-due to large scale Italian migration to France
-as well as Italy doing a better job of promoting economic development in its south here
-so big Italian-American hotspot is Little Italy neighborhood of New York City
-as well as in New Jersey
-with pizza fairly heard of in New York and less so in New Jersey though not so much elsewhere in the US
Irish-Americans
-a lot less than OTL
-a much smaller Irish famine which occurred during US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8) which made it utterly impossible for Irish people to emigrate to the US and they instead moved to Canada
-this in turn reduces chain migration over time to the US
-also Ireland has a way healthier demography and so does not bleed quite so much people
Creole
-includes Cajuns here
-dominant over large swathes of Orleans
-speak a very irregular dialect of French
-with a lot of Spanish influence due to a lot of Creoles being descended from Spanish settlers
-and also a fair number of German influence
Jewish Americans
-somewhat later than OTL due to France being right there
-and attracting them
-after Young Russian Revolution (1902-8) a lot of Russian Jews choose to flee and many far off to US
-with its better reputation and all now that Liberty and Union War (1868-76) struggles over
-over 20th century Jewish American community expands dramatically
Slavic-Americans
Russian-Americans
-in aftermath of Liberty and Union War (1868-76) a lot of Russians attracted to come
-a lot of them coming from Little Russia region
-and Russians fleeing Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) flee to US in large numbers
-this creates myriad Little Moscows across the US
Polish-Americans
-less than OTL
-due to France being right there and absorbing way more of them
Scandinavian-Americans
Icelandic-Americans
-due to overpopulation in Iceland there's mass emigration
-with the US with its great amount of frosty land being a big destination
-Pembina ends up being the site of a huge area of settlement known as New Iceland
Asian-Americans
-pretty large due to periods in American history in which tap of immigrants from Europe stopped
-resulting in the nation looking eastwards for immigrants instead
Chinese-Americans
-come in as part of mining booms as part of same process happening in Buenaventura
-first one Country folders/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1878) sees a lot of Chinese people (mostly men)
-there's an initial backlash over them but associated with Territory of Lowndes and after it's suppressed during US's Wars > White Knight rebellions (1878-94) they are tolerated
-also come in due to railroad construction
-recruited due to worker shortages especially during construction of American Infrastructure > Pembina Pacific Railroad
-and other railroad construction in the Interior
-a lot of them move to Olympia due to it being right on the Pacific coast
-and due to gold rushes bringing in a lot of them to Columbia and then after being kicked out by locals fleeing to Olympia
-and because they are brought during railroad construction
-despite unpopularity in the Interior and Olympia its weakness means the movement for Chinese exclusion does not succeed
-Chinese immigration expands hard in 1880s
-before crashing during Russo-Chinese War (1893-9)
-it takes until well into 20th century for it to rise back to these pretty high levels
Japanese-Americans
-with Japan having a rougher ride to modernization (Heads of Japan > 1860-1911 Tokugawa Yoshinobu) it has much higher rates of emigration
-as part of rise of remittances, with a number of them eventually moving back
-with a lot of Japanese emigrants moving to the US
-a lot of whalers coming in to the US
-especially Rhode Island
-additionally need to repopulate and revive south after Liberty and Union War (1868-76) results in Japanese attracted south
-in Mississippi Delta and in Carolinas over rice revival
-Japanese is focal point because there's a pretty big Japanese population surplus
Korean-Americans
-after Russian defeat in Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) a lot of Korean migrants fleeing rise of Heads of Korea > 1901-1933 Gwangseo Emperor also flee across Pacific
-mostly Orthodox but people associated with Joseon dynasty also flee
-creating a Korean minority particularly in Olympia
Vietnamese-Americans
-with Vietnam having a high labor surplus a lot of Vietnamese travel to the US
-additionally, the US seeks to drive up sugar production and Vietnamese expertise looked to
-sees a lot of Vietnamese brought in to the Gulf coast for their expertise
-Vietnamese sugar plantations emerge in Deep South
-succeeds in Orleans in particular but also in Mississippi and Yazoo
-Georgia sees some pretty large ones
-and West Florida sees some pretty notable ones
-failure in South Carolina despite attempts to make more suitable breeds
Tungcheng
-Chinese word for "Eastern Orthodox"
-Chinese Orthodox in and around Manchuria fleeing Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) and reprisals of Chinese effort come into the US
-for the most part, they flee into Olympia, and specifically Port Townsend
-form their own discrete community
-often alienated from rest of Chinese-Americans
-due to its disdain of Chinese republicanism and its firm religious identity
-and often viewed as Russian in practice
Hunsher
-half-Chinese half-white
-comes from this
-most of the Chinese who come in during the early stage are young men of pretty marriable age
-and viewed as something above Colored people
-for the most part it's in Olympia and Interior that they immigrate in this era
-and with the Southron Bride Trek bringing a lot of women a lot of them marry these Chinese men
-creating Hunsher community
-with the men converting and most of them become Baptists
Aynoco
-half-Japanese half-White (from this )
-with name transliterated this way because it looks Hispanic and sort of like mulatto and the like
-a lot of these in Olympia as well as along the US's coast
-with New Orleans having a fairly high Aynoco population
-most of these are men which means a lot of white intermarriage
Colored-Americans
-aka "Africans"
-though this is generally considered an offensive phrase as it implies they aren't really American
-following Liberty and Union War (1868-76) emancipation became law in the US and they won the right to vote
-and became included in the political system
-and also with both it and southern out-migration they became majorities in certain southern states which later immigration does not change
-South Carolina, Mississippi, Orleans, Georgia
-growth of Lille means that Yazoo now no longer has a Colored majority though it did historically
-with Reconstruction there is some interracial marriage albeit still at low rates
-in particular with new immigrants
-and most interracial marriages there are have black woman with white man because the other is viewed as much worse
-relatively late to urbanization because land ownership is very important part of Colored culture
Mulatto
-still an extant racial category and never excluded from census
-with urbanization of slavery, there emerges a mulatto freed category with some degree of education
-which tends to be disproportionately urban
-with Liberty and Union War (1868-76) they emerge as leaders of the Coloreds de facto
-but in practice this is swiftly broken with rise of mass literacy as well as a degree of resentment
-with destruction of white male pop by war there's a degree of intermarriage
-but relatively minor in practice, unusual but not rare
-with mass immigration of many men (particularly Germans) into the South some marry Colored women
-which helps further enhance growth of a mulatto racial category and also they're more rural than otherwise
Moreno
-used to describe Colored-Americans descended from slaves sold to the Antilles under the trans-Caribbean slave trade
-quite a lot of them got semi-Hispanicized during that time simply because they lived alongside a bunch of Hispanic people
-and also because their children grew up in such an environment
-then returned following the Antillean War (1880-4) as they are, under law, citizens of the United States
-incl. children and other descendants as well as a number of other Cuban freedmen who also choose to move northwards
-in terms of religion many of them are in fact Catholic, but most of them are good Protestants
-most of them got settled into cities across the eastern seaboard
-giving a whole bunch of northern cities a large Colored minority for the first time
-while existing Colored minorities there do not view them as kin
-Northern white dissent kicks off a series of race riots in the 1890s
-eventually environment settles down and Little Cubas exist across cities
-also in New Orleans and rest of Orleans state they simply become absorbed into Creole community
-Moreno is one of several demonyms attached to them, and considered the least offensive
-a lot of Morenos open "Cuba-style" restaurants and the like
-Cuban sandwiches heavy on pork having become an iconic food of American cuisine
African-Americans
-there is a very large amount of Colored missionaries who go to Africa
-as part of efforts to "civilize" and Christianize the motherland
-this in turn leads to pretty large numbers of Africans who choose to send their children to American schools
-particularly from West Africa which is beachhead for American missions
-for education and the like
-because there is a pretty large Colored infrastructure in the US
-with Africa being richer here there are way more Africans having the money to emigrate
-but at the same time Africa is still a fair bit poorer than the west
-Most of them are West African, with perhaps a plurality of immigrants being Yoruba and the next biggest Igbo
-but still quite diverse
-following Zanzibar Revolution, a lot of Zanzibari people emigrate to the US
-and unusually, many of them are Muslim and all which gives the US a large Muslim minority
State demography
| State | White | Colored | Asian | Indigenous | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 82.1% | 14.9% | 2.6% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 100% |
| Pennsylvania | 85.4% | 8.4% | 5.6% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 100% |
| New Jersey | 87.2% | 6.3% | 6.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 100% |
| Georgia | 43.1% | 51.4% | 4.6% | 0.2% | 0.7% | 100% |
| Connecticut | 87.3% | 3.9% | 8.3% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 100% |
| Massachusetts | 82.7% | 6.6% | 9.1% | 0.2% | 1.4% | 100% |
| Maryland | 68.7% | 27.7% | 3.2% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 100% |
| South Carolina | 31.0% | 63.3% | 4.5% | 0.1% | 1.1% | 100% |
| New Hampshire | 89.4% | 3.8% | 6.3% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 100% |
| Virginia | 50.4% | 43.6% | 4.7% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 100% |
| New York | 78.2% | 11.9% | 7.9% | 0.3% | 1.7% | 100% |
| North Carolina | 52.8% | 42.4% | 2.5% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 100% |
| Rhode Island | 83.8% | 3.7% | 11.2% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 100% |
| Vermont | 96.3% | 0.7% | 2.4% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 100% |
| Kentucky | 71.0% | 22.3% | 5.7% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 100% |
| Tennessee | 59.6% | 30.3% | 8.3% | 0.2% | 1.6% | 100% |
| Ohio | 81.1% | 7.2% | 9.9% | 0.2% | 1.6% | 100% |
| Indiana | 86.9% | 6.1% | 5.4% | 0.3% | 1.3% | 100% |
| Yazoo | 48.6% | 44.3% | 4.1% | 0.4% | 2.6% | 100% |
| Illinois | 85.4% | 8.6% | 4.5% | 0.1% | 1.4% | 100% |
| Mississippi | 40.2% | 58.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.2% | 100% |
| Orleans | 30.5% | 55.7% | 9.1% | 0.4% | 4.2% | 100% |
| Michigan | 84.9% | 4.2% | 7.9% | 0.9% | 2.1% | 100% |
| Missouri | 62.3% | 26.4% | 8.3% | 0.4% | 2.6% | 100% |
| Wisconsan | 86.3% | 4.9% | 6.7% | 0.7% | 1.4% | 100% |
| Arkansaw | 59.6% | 34.3% | 5.4% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 100% |
| West Florida | 63.6% | 24.2% | 8.7% | 0.3% | 3.2% | 100% |
| Juniper | 85.7% | 7.2% | 5.7% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 100% |
| Ontonagon | 83.5% | 6.4% | 8.8% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 100% |
| Nibrasca | 87.3% | 7.5% | 2.0% | 1.3% | 1.9% | 100% |
| Kances | 78.1% | 12.4% | 7.7% | 0.2% | 1.6% | 100% |
| Maine | 94.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% | 3.4% | 0.9% | 100% |
| Olympia | 49.9% | 2.1% | 43.4% | 0.4% | 4.2% | 100% |
| Alleghania | 93.0% | 4.5% | 1.8% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 100% |
| Franklin | 89.5% | 5.8% | 3.9% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 100% |
| Cimarron | 73.3% | 15.7% | 9.2% | 0.4% | 1.4% | 100% |
| Pembina | 93.3% | 0.9% | 5.1% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 100% |
| East Florida | 49.2% | 43.4% | 4.2% | 0.8% | 2.4% | 100% |
| Anacostia | 52.3% | 37.4% | 8.3% | 0.2% | 1.8% | 100% |
| Tahosa | 70.9% | 3.2% | 22.4% | 2.2% | 1.3% | 100% |
| Minasota | 25.9% | 3.4% | 1.4% | 68.9% | 0.4% | 100% |
| Washingtonia | 67.9% | 2.1% | 15.3% | 13.6% | 1.1% | 100% |
| Cheyenne | 61.8% | 1.8% | 11.4% | 23.6% | 1.4% | 100% |
| Total | 69.3% | 21.2% | 7.3% | 0.7% | 1.5% | 100% |