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[[File:Largest white alone or in any combination group by county in the United States. US Census 2020.jpg|thumb|275px|European ancestry in the United States by county (self-reported) in 2020]]

People of [[Europe]]an descent, or White Americans (also referred to as [[European Americans]] and Caucasian Americans), constitute the majority of the 331 million people living in the United States, with 191,697,647 people or 61.6% of the population in the [[2020 United States census]].~~{{efn|~~Of the foreign-born population from [[Europe]] (4,817 thousand), in 2010, 61.8% were naturalized.<ref name="fbpACS2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-19.pdf |title=The Foreign Born Population in the United States: 2010}}</ref>

People of [[Europe]]an descent, or White Americans (also referred to as [[European Americans]] and Caucasian Americans), constitute the majority of the 331 million people living in the United States, with 191,697,647 people or 61.6% of the population in the [[2020 United States census]].Of the foreign-born population from [[Europe]] (4,817 thousand), in 2010, 61.8% were naturalized.<ref name="fbpACS2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-19.pdf |title=The Foreign Born Population in the United States: 2010}}</ref>

The [[Spaniards]] were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the continental United States in 1565.<ref name=loc>{{cite web |url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_augustin_1.html |title=A Spanish Expedition Established St. Augustine in Florida |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=March 27, 2009 |archive-date=October 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010022552/http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_augustin_1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

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 [[File:Largest white alone or in any combination group by county in the United States. US Census 2020.jpg|thumb|275px|European ancestry in the United States by county (self-reported) in 2020]]
-People of [[Europe]]an descent, or White Americans (also referred to as [[European Americans]] and Caucasian Americans), constitute the majority of the 331&nbsp;million people living in the United States, with 191,697,647 people or 61.6% of the population in the [[2020 United States census]].{{efn|Of the foreign-born population from [[Europe]] (4,817 thousand), in 2010, 61.8% were naturalized.<ref name="fbpACS2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-19.pdf |title=The Foreign Born Population in the United States: 2010}}</ref>
+People of [[Europe]]an descent, or White Americans (also referred to as [[European Americans]] and Caucasian Americans), constitute the majority of the 331&nbsp;million people living in the United States, with 191,697,647 people or 61.6% of the population in the [[2020 United States census]].Of the foreign-born population from [[Europe]] (4,817 thousand), in 2010, 61.8% were naturalized.<ref name="fbpACS2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-19.pdf |title=The Foreign Born Population in the United States: 2010}}</ref>
 The [[Spaniards]] were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the continental United States in 1565.<ref name=loc>{{cite web |url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_augustin_1.html |title=A Spanish Expedition Established St. Augustine in Florida |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=March 27, 2009 |archive-date=October 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010022552/http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_augustin_1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>