From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:09:04 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote:
>
>> And again, I said that less than half of the *country* was English.
>
> And again, that's ignorant claptrap. Excluding Native Americans (a
> fine old tradition), well over 75% of the American population of 1790,
> and about 90% of the white population, was born in the UK, or born to
> parents from the UK, or to parents born to parents... etc.
>
> http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/index.html
>

That shows considerable variation from state to state and this url:

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/16071783/history/history.htm

shows the English-derived population at 50 percent.

Your source is under the impression that Vermont was a territory in 1790
when it was an independent republic until 1791.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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