The same is true of Australian Aborigines (and Maoris), who continue to push back even further to establish their relevance as true indigenes. 'Native' peoples, particularly in the western world, cannot or will not consider themselves immigrants, although they truly are. They can and do though consider themselves 'First Peoples or Nations' because of their premier immigrant status, however, that tends to diminish everyone else and the nations following that they have then built.
Everyone is an immigrant, we are all ex-Africans but that's never gonna hold water is it.
In 2023, 75.5% of Americans identified themselves as "white alone". This comes from the official 2023 US Census data: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045223
In the 1970 US Census, 87.5% of Americans identified themselves as "white". But note that in 1970, "white" included Mexicans and Puerto Ricans , who today might be more inclined to identify themselves as "Hispanic" or "Latino" rather than white. The inclusion of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans as "white" comes directly from the 1970 Census Supplementary Report, page 2, link:
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1970/pc-s1-supplementary-reports/pc-s1-11.pdf
It should also be noted that many people who live in the American Southwest who today might identify themselves as "Hispanic" or "Latino" have always lived in the American Southwest. They are indigenous people. They are not immigrants.
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