Spanish Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain. They are the longest-established European American group in the modern United States, with a very small group descending from those explorations leaving from Spain and the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and starting in the early 1500s, of 42 of the future U.S. states from California to Florida; and beginning a continuous presence in Florida since 1565 and New Mexico since 1598.
In the 2020 United States census, 978,978 self-identified with "Spaniard" origins representing (0.4%) of the white alone or in combination population who responded to the question. Other results include 866,356 (0.4%) identifying as "Spanish" and 50,966 who identified with "Spanish American".
Spanish American actress Anita Page in Our Modern Maidens (1929)
The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Little Spain, important nucleus for many decades of the Spanish community in New York
El Centro Español de Tampa is a cultural house built in 1912 in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida.
Spanish children from the SS Heliopolis after arriving in Hawaii in 1907
European Americans, or Americans of European descent, are descendants of European settlers and immigrants. This term includes both people who descend from the first European settlers in the area of the present-day United States and people who descend from more recent European arrivals. Since the 17th century, European Americans have been the largest panethnic group in what are now the United States.
Largest white alone or in any combination group by county in the 2020 United States census.
Racial types of European Americans as published in "The American Museum journal" between 1900-1918
The New York City Metropolitan Area is home to the largest European population in the United States.
American cultural icons, apple pie, baseball, and the American flag. All have European influence primarily from the British.