I know I have seen this image and data before (in a book we got for free at a geography conference) but I ">just saw it again and now the connections to US politics sprung into my mind. Southerners tend to see themselves as either as unhyphenated Americans or Black. In the north, relatively few people see themselves as just American and instead remember their ethnic ancestry and are proud of it. The largest ancestry is German though the English were the "charter group" and hence the United States speaks English rather than German.
In a past academic life :) I taught cultural geography and researched ethnic distribution in cities....
It seems that the core "red states" area is also the area where people identify as American most. Well, this isn't quite true:
but I think interesting all the same.
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