Ethnic Maps of North America

first time in their families' history were aliens, immigrants, or foreign-born. They were not ethnics. The term ethnicity, which ascribes to an individual or group qualities of a distinct culture based on shared heritage and values, has been part of geographer's research vocabulary only since 1930's and 1940's, when it was developed as an explanatory concept in sociology for certain kinds of group behavior.' The maps that previous generation of geographers used to portray immigrant distributions at national scale were invariably based on census materials. Ellen Semple, writing in 1903, included a map of Foreign in American History and Its Geographic Conditions.2 The map was based on county data for foreign-born from eleventh national census of population. The foreign-born were mapped in six proportional categories of foreign to total population. County boundaries were used to delimit intervals in eastern half of country, whereas a number of boundaries in West were generalized. Semple's explanation for small number of scattered immigrant settlements in South, which she thought to be most striking feature on map, was the presence of that most alien of all aliens, negro

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• Preadaptation and European Colonization in Rural North America

  Terry G Jordan•Annals of the Association of…•1989

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• Belgian Settlement and Society in the Indiana Rust Belt

  Open Access•Susan E Hume•Geographical Review•2003

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