White American
Anglo-descended US national
A White American is a United States citizen or resident of European ancestry.
The category appears throughout American demographic data, census forms, and discussions of race: White Americans make up about 60% of the population.
The term functions as both noun and adjective: a White American family.
What counts as "white" has shifted historically—Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants were not always included.
The category is often contrasted with other racial and ethnic groups in discussions of inequality, voting patterns, or cultural identity.
Person of European ancestry
- AngloEnglish-origin prefix
- WASPAnglo establishment shorthand
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
descendant · majority · settler · colonist · immigrant · assimilation · hyphenated · generational
Exclusive right or benefit
- cultureCollective social practices
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
- middle-classIntermediate socioeconomic group
- mainstreamDominant cultural current
demographic · census · racial · classification · self-identification · passing · invisibility · normative
Aligned electoral faction
- swing voterPersuadable electorate member
- ruralOf the countryside
- working-classManual laborers as group
- blue-collarManual labor workforce
conservative · liberal · populism · electoral · polarization · realignment
Caucasian
Person of European ancestry
heritage · descendant · majority · settler · colonist · immigrant · assimilation · hyphenated · generational
privilege
Exclusive right or benefit
- cultureCollective social practices
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
- middle-classIntermediate socioeconomic group
mainstream · demographic · census · racial · classification · self-identification · passing · invisibility · normative · default
voting bloc
Aligned electoral faction
- swing voterPersuadable electorate member
- ruralOf the countryside
- working-classManual laborers as group
blue-collar · conservative · liberal · populism · electoral · polarization · realignment
- American EthnicityPuerto Rican, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Chicana
White AmericanAfrican American
U.S. Black ethnic identity
person of color · Native American · African-American · Asian American · Hispanic American
white, American, whiten, whiteness, whitish, whiter, whitest, whites, America