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In the [[1980 United States census|1980 census]], 1,584,303 people from Georgia claimed [[English American|English]] ancestry out of a total state population of 3,994,817, making them 40% of the state, and the largest ethnic group at the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov//population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111061729/http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |url-status=live |title=Persons Who Reported at Least One Specific Ancestry Group for Regions, Divisions and States | year = 1980 |publisher=Census |access-date=October 23, 2012}}</ref> Today, many of these same people claiming they are of "American" ancestry are actually of English descent, and some are of [[Scottish-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] descent; however, their families have lived in the state for so long, in many cases since the colonial period, that they choose to identify simply as having "American" ancestry or do not in fact know their own ancestry. Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies and for this reason many of them today simply claim "American" ancestry, though they are of predominantly English ancestry.<ref>{{Citation | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 | title = Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America | first = Dominic J | last = Pulera | isbn = 9780826416438 | date = October 20, 2004 | publisher = A&C Black | access-date = October 16, 2015 | archive-date = January 16, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230116051127/https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Reynolds | last = Farley | title = The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us? | journal = Demography | volume = 28 | number = 3 |date=August 1991 | pages = 411–29 | doi=10.2307/2061465 | pmid=1936376| jstor = 2061465 | s2cid = 41503995 | doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Stanley | last1 = Lieberson | first2 = Lawrence | last2 = Santi | title = The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns | journal = Social Science Research | volume = 14 | number = 1 | year = 1985 | pages = 44–6 | doi=10.1016/0049-089x(85)90011-0}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Stanley | last1 = Lieberson | first2 = Mary C | last2 = Waters | title = Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites | journal = Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | volume = 487 | number = 79 |date=September 1986 | pages = 82–86 | doi=10.1177/0002716286487001004| s2cid = 60711423}}</ref> | In the [[1980 United States census|1980 census]], 1,584,303 people from Georgia claimed [[English American|English]] ancestry out of a total state population of 3,994,817, making them 40% of the state, and the largest ethnic group at the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov//population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111061729/http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |url-status=live |title=Persons Who Reported at Least One Specific Ancestry Group for Regions, Divisions and States | year = 1980 |publisher=Census |access-date=October 23, 2012}}</ref> Today, many of these same people claiming they are of "American" ancestry are actually of English descent, and some are of [[Scottish-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] descent; however, their families have lived in the state for so long, in many cases since the colonial period, that they choose to identify simply as having "American" ancestry or do not in fact know their own ancestry. Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies and for this reason many of them today simply claim "American" ancestry, though they are of predominantly English ancestry.<ref>{{Citation | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 | title = Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America | first = Dominic J | last = Pulera | isbn = 9780826416438 | date = October 20, 2004 | publisher = A&C Black | access-date = October 16, 2015 | archive-date = January 16, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230116051127/https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Reynolds | last = Farley | title = The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us? | journal = Demography | volume = 28 | number = 3 |date=August 1991 | pages = 411–29 | doi=10.2307/2061465 | pmid=1936376| jstor = 2061465 | s2cid = 41503995 | doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Stanley | last1 = Lieberson | first2 = Lawrence | last2 = Santi | title = The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns | journal = Social Science Research | volume = 14 | number = 1 | year = 1985 | pages = 44–6 | doi=10.1016/0049-089x(85)90011-0}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Stanley | last1 = Lieberson | first2 = Mary C | last2 = Waters | title = Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites | journal = Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | volume = 487 | number = 79 |date=September 1986 | pages = 82–86 | doi=10.1177/0002716286487001004| s2cid = 60711423}}</ref> | ||
Historically, about half of Georgia's population was composed of African Americans who, before the | Historically, about half of Georgia's population was composed of African Americans who, before the American Civil War, were almost exclusively enslaved. The [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] of hundreds of thousands of blacks from the rural South to the industrial North from 1914 to 1970 reduced the African American population.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.brookings.edu/urban/pubs/20040524_Frey.pdf |first=William H |last=Frey |title=The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965–2000 |publisher=The Brookings Institution |date=May 2004 |access-date=May 19, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428042235/http://www.brookings.edu/urban/pubs/20040524_Frey.pdf |archive-date=April 28, 2008}}</ref> | ||
Georgia had the second-fastest-growing Asian population growth in the U.S. from 1990 to 2000, more than doubling in size during the ten-year period.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.oca-georgia.org/AtlantaProfile.pdf |title=Atlanta |type=profile |publisher=Oca |place=GA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711094955/http://www.oca-georgia.org/AtlantaProfile.pdf |archive-date=July 11, 2009}}</ref> Indian people and Chinese people are the largest Asian groups in Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GA-2018.pdf |title=Georgia - AAPI Data |access-date=March 13, 2023 |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308150150/https://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GA-2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, according to census estimates, Georgia ranks third among the states in terms of the percent of the total population that is African American (after [[Mississippi]] and [[Louisiana]]) and third in numeric Black population after New York and Florida. Georgia also has a sizeable Latino population. Many are of Mexican descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/latino-immigration/|title=Latino Immigration|access-date=November 19, 2022|archive-date=November 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119032026/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/latino-immigration/|url-status=live}}</ref> | Georgia had the second-fastest-growing Asian population growth in the U.S. from 1990 to 2000, more than doubling in size during the ten-year period.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.oca-georgia.org/AtlantaProfile.pdf |title=Atlanta |type=profile |publisher=Oca |place=GA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711094955/http://www.oca-georgia.org/AtlantaProfile.pdf |archive-date=July 11, 2009}}</ref> Indian people and Chinese people are the largest Asian groups in Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GA-2018.pdf |title=Georgia - AAPI Data |access-date=March 13, 2023 |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308150150/https://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GA-2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, according to census estimates, Georgia ranks third among the states in terms of the percent of the total population that is African American (after [[Mississippi]] and [[Louisiana]]) and third in numeric Black population after New York and Florida. Georgia also has a sizeable Latino population. Many are of Mexican descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/latino-immigration/|title=Latino Immigration|access-date=November 19, 2022|archive-date=November 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119032026/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/latino-immigration/|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||