a few months ago I finally caved to public pressure normally I avoid race related videos
on this channel but I kept getting requests I always avoided the subject because I just
didn't want the comment section to be a blaze with racist comments people pointed out that it's not
just racists that want to know the demographics of a location people of different races like to
know where to live so they can be near types of restaurants they like stores and different
festivals things like that to me that argument made sense so a few months back we did a video
on the most Asian states in the U.S and then later on we did the most Hispanic States today
we are doing the whitest States I mean it's kind of only fair we're gonna look at the percentage
of the population that is considered white we'll also look at what European people settled in that
area first and this is all according to the U.S census and now a brief overview around 1565 the
Spanish showed up in Saint Augustine Florida then of course the Mayflower showed up on November 11
1620. now there's a whole bunch of other stories with explorers and Russians in Alaska and all that
other good stuff but the two main things in the history book of North American Colonization is
the Mayflower and then the Spanish down in Saint Augustine whatever the case may be or the story
may be white people took over and what is now the United States has been predominantly white ever
since today we're going to look at 10 states whose percentages haven't changed much since the 1700s
got it get it good let's take a look number 10 Nebraska Nebraska is extremely white and
they start our list off by the 1870s Nebraska's European immigrant population was at its peak
and about 25 percent of the state's residents were born in a foreign country Dane swedes Irish
Germans and Czechs figured predominantly among the early newcomers to Nebraska if you need more proof
that Nebraska is extremely white take this into consideration the number one male name in Nebraska
is Oliver followed by Henry and Liam number four is Theodore 88.1 percent of Nebraska's population
is white number nine Montana coming in strong with the blonde hair blue eyes crowd you have
Montana originally Italians and Germans settled in Fergus and park counties many Germans came from
North Dakota and Canada and a lot of Cattlemen that landed in Montana were mostly English and
Scottish now the dynamic back then was the English and the Scottish basically worked the cattle but
the owners were typically German now they did have sheep men sheep men normally weren't okay back in
the day the cattle guys didn't really like them but there were a lot of them in Montana and they
were from the British Isles that's how Montana became the Montana we know today 88.9 percent of
Montana's population is white number eight Utah if you didn't know Utah was mostly white you've never
been in a Mormon temple Mormons make up about 70 percent of the Utah population and they have
a history of being so white they think Malcolm X is a member of the X-Men in the early days Spanish
explorers and French Canadian British and Canadian fur Traders had briefly stomped around Utah before
in 1847 but it was that year that the Mormon immigrants from Britain Canada Denmark and Norway
were part of the Mormon Exodus from Illinois and became the first non-native Americans to settle
in the future Beehive State 90.6 percent of Utah's population is considered white
number seven Iowa if you didn't know Iowa's very white you've never been to a County Fair
in Iowa before I start doing the research for this video I honestly thought it was gonna be
number one I've been to Iowa a few times and it is probably the widest State I've ever seen
at least that was my opinion the numbers don't match up with my opinion so here they are at
number seven back in the early days like the 1840s a majority of the settlers that came
to Iowa came from the Scandinavian countries some were Dutch German Irish Scots and Welsh
new englanders started showing up that same time along with Quakers in 1941 and then the Mormons
started showing up around 1846. yes Iowa has a good size population of Mormons as well nothing
near what Utah has but it's up there these days 90.6 of Iowa's population is considered white
number six Wyoming there were six groups that made up the early immigrant Settlers of Wyoming
the British the Germans Italians Basque and the Greeks showed up here in 1870 immigrants from
the British Isles represented about one-fifth of Wyoming's territorial population and over
one half the foreign-born population so the Brits came in strong in the last few decades Wyoming's
become very popular with just about everyone but these days 92.5 percent of their population are
identified as white number five Idaho Idaho is quite the reputation for being very white
it has always been that way in the late 19th and early 20th century large majority of the settlers
were English many before statehood this seemed like a really great place to them because there
wasn't much government back in those days most the English from Jolly Old England were being taxed
to death in a place with next to no government seemed like a great place to live 93 percent of
Idaho's population is identified as white number four or New Hampshire this is another state that
should be no surprise to anyone that's ever been to New Hampshire if you live there you already
know I mean we're talking about a state where the people consider Taco Bell diversity New Hampshire
being part of New England obviously goes back to the colonial days and at the time it was
mostly British residents in the area that would eventually become New Hampshire but in 1799 they
started being joined there by a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrants what's strange is for a long
time they had a lot of French Canadians living in New Hampshire and sometimes you could find little
bits and pieces of that culture in New Hampshire they came down for the textile mills from Quebec
and a lot of them stayed back in the day these days 93.1 percent of New Hampshire's population
is considered white number three West Virginia West Virginia is kind of strange I thought they
would be a little bit higher as in the percentage because unlike most cities in the United States
West Virginia cities really don't have a lot of diversity and if you look outside the cities in
some of the rural areas the mountains and haulers especially there is like zero diversity so I'm
actually a little surprised they're number three on this list the settlement of present day West
Virginia began in the mid 1700s when Scottish Irish and German settlers from Pennsylvania came
to the area that is now Berkeley and Greenbrier counties the Scottish and Irish cultures really
soaked into the West Virginia land a lot of the folk music in this part of the country is heavy
with Scottish and Irish folk influence these days 93.5 percent of West Virginia's population is
identified as white number two Vermont remember everything I said about New Hampshire well it's
the same in Vermont it always seems to be that way I mean they're right next to each other and they
always seem to show up really close on lists you look at their crime stats you look at their school
grades their economies they're always right next to each other on whatever stat we're looking at
like New Hampshire the place was settled with the English the Irish and the Scottish eventually and
they also had a fair share of people coming down from Quebec the French Canadians these days 94.2
percent of Vermont's population is identified as white all right before we get to number one don't
forget we have another Channel called on this day there's a link down below there's also a
link for home and money which if you're moving to another state another city they're a great website
to help you get in touch with a realtor in that area you're moving to all right on to number one
and number one Maine look at that New England has three states on the top four on this list and if
you've ever been to New England you probably are not surprised at all and especially when it comes
to Maine if you look at Maine's largest city which is Portland first of all they have less than 70
000 residents the entire metro area has about 556 000 but if you look at the city of Portland Maine
their white population is 91.27 that is very high for a city granted this isn't some urban sprawl or
anything like that it's still a city if you take a look at the other Portland across the country in
Oregon their white population is about 76 side note Oregon almost made this list it comes in
like number 14. Portland Oregon's obviously a lot bigger but still it's an interesting comparison
the pine tree state has a population that is 94.4 percent White all right that's today's video hope
you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it if we do another one of these what race
culture religion should we do it about all right everyone have a great day be nice to each other