White Americans in Maryland

Ethnic Group

Ethnic group

White MarylandersTotal population

Approx. 3.275 million (57.3% - total)[1] (2020)
Regions with significant populations
Frederick| 67.2% White, 55.2% non-Hispanic white
Columbia| 53.7% White, 47.7% non-Hispanic white
Germantown| 46.% White, 30.9% non-Hispanic white
Silver Spring| 41.1% White, 34.2% non-Hispanic white
Baltimore| 30.3% White, 27.6% non-Hispanic white
Languages
American English (Baltimore accent, Tidewater accent), American Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, German, Russian, Persian, Greek, Arabic, Portuguese, American Sign Language
Religion
Christianity (Mainly Protestantism and Roman Catholicism), Judaism, Irreligion, Atheism, Islam[2]
Related ethnic groups
White Americans, White Hispanic and Latino Americans

White Marylanders are White Americans living in Maryland. As of 2019, they comprise 57.3% of the state's population. 49.8% of the population is non-Hispanic white, making Maryland a majority minority state.[3]

## Demographics

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As of 2019, Maryland is 49.8% non-Hispanic white, becoming the first state on the East Coast to become minority-majority.[4] Only the majority-minority states of Hawaii, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas have a smaller percentage of non-Hispanic whites. By 2031, minorities are projected to become the majority of voting eligible residents of Maryland.[5]

Children from minority groups are already the majority of Maryland children.[6] In 2017 , 41.6% of live births were to non-Hispanic white mothers.[7]

The top reported ancestries of white Marylanders are: German (15.7%), Irish (11.4%), English (8.5%), American (6.7%), Italian (5.7%), Polish (3.1%), French (2.9%), Dutch (1.5%), Norwegian (1.5%), Scottish (1.8%), Swedish (1.3%), Scotch-Irish (1.1%), and Russian (1%). Smaller white ethnic groups include French-Canadians (0.7%), Welsh (0.6%), Arabs (0.5%), Czechs (0.5%), Danish (0.5%), Hungarians (0.5%), Portuguese (0.5%), Greeks (0.4%), Swiss (0.3%), Ukrainians (0.3%), Lithuanians (0.2%), and Slovaks (0.2%). [8]

## History

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### Early European exploration and colonization

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The Spanish were the first Europeans to explore the Maryland region and had contact with Maryland’s Native American tribes.[9]

In 1498 the first European explorers sailed along the Eastern Shore, off present-day Worcester County.[10] In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano, sailing under the French flag, passed the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. In 1608 John Smith entered the bay[10] and explored it extensively. His maps still exist today, and although technically crude they are surprisingly accurate given the technology of those times (the maps are ornate but crude by modern technical standards).

The region was depicted in a map by Estêvão Gomes and Diego Gutiérrez, made in 1562, in the context of the Spanish Ajacán Mission of the sixteenth century.[11]

British settlers had sought to reproduce the tobacco and slavery in the tidewater area in Maryland. British settlers such as James Marshall brought enslaved laborers in the state. German settlers had farmed smaller tracts of land. They cultivated corn, wheat and other crops in Maryland. [12]

## Religion

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The majority of white Marylanders are Christians. As of 2014, 53% of Christians in Maryland were white, down from 57% in 2007. 27% of white Marylanders in 2014 were Mainline Protestants, 19% were Catholics, 18% were Evangelical Protestants, and 6% were Jewish. 1% each of white Marylanders was Mormon and Orthodox Christian. Less than 1% each of white Marylanders were Buddhist, Hindu, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Muslims.[13]

## Politics

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In the 2020 presidential election, 62% of all voters in Maryland were white. 52% of white voters in Maryland voted for Joe Biden while 46% voted for Donald Trump. By comparison, 88% of voters of color voted for Joe Biden and 11% voted for Donald Trump. By gender, white male voters in Maryland preferred Biden to Trump 50% to 47%, while white women voters preferred Biden to Trump 53% to 45%. White millennials ages 18 to 29 were the most likely to vote for Biden (56%), while middle-aged whites ages 45 to 64 were the most likely to vote for Trump (52%). By religion, white Protestants preferred Trump over Biden by a wide margin (62% to 35%) while white Catholics preferred Trump by a smaller margin (54% to 44%). Non-religious whites preferred Biden over Trump 73% to 23%, while whites of some other religion preferred Biden over Trump (72% to 28%). Urban and suburban whites preferred Biden, while small town and rural whites preferred Trump. Trump won with non-college educated whites, particularly non-college educated white women, while Biden won among college educated whites, particularly college educated white women.[14]

Until the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election, Maryland only had white Governors in the course of its history. All twelve colonial governors and all sixty-two governors of the State of Maryland preceding Wes Moore had been white men.[15] Republican Michael Steele became Maryland's first non-white and first African-American lieutenant governor in 2003,[16] Democrat Anthony Brown became the second African-American lieutenant governor in 2007, and Republican Boyd Rutherford became the third African-American lieutenant governor in 2015. No white women have served as governor, but Kathleen Kennedy Townsend became Maryland's first white female lieutenant governor in 1995.[17]

## White Supremacy

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In 1999, Maryland was home to at least a dozen white-supremacist hate groups, including the World Church of the Creator, six chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, the Baltimore branch of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, an Abingdon-based skinhead fraternity known as the Hammerskin Nation, and an Edgewater-based neo-Nazi group called SS Regalia. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified several white-supremacist hate groups in Maryland as of 2020, including two KKK affiliates: the Noble Klans of America and the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.[18] The number of white supremacist hate groups in Maryland often fluctuates from year to year as groups splinter and recombine. Typically, these white-supremacist hate groups have several dozen members and keep a low profile, although they actively try to recruit new members. The KKK has long been the most active and most visible white racist organization in Maryland, though the influence of the KKK was waning by the 1990s. The KKK had a strong presence in rural Western and Central Maryland in counties such as Carroll, Frederick, Howard, and Washington. The oldest KKK affiliate in Maryland is the Invincible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, with chapters in Frederick and Washington counties, and which held intermittent rallies in Annapolis. The American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan faction, with chapters in Clinton, Timonium, and Rising Sun, also held rallies in Annapolis during the 1990s.[19]

During the 2010s, Maryland's government began to confront the white-supremacist legacy of lynching. In 2021, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan pardoned 34 African-American victims of lynching who had been murdered between 1854 and 1933, due to activism from the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project and other anti-racist organizations.[20]

All of Maryland's Confederate monuments located on public land were removed during the 2010s, with the last Confederate statue being the Talbot Boys Statue at the Talbot County Courthouse in Easton courthouse. The Talbot County Council voted to remove the Talbot Boys Confederate monument in September, 2021.[21]

## See also

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* Maryland portal
* Europe portal

* Demographics of Maryland
* History of White Americans in Baltimore
* Majority minority in the United States
* Colonial families of Maryland
* Old Stock Americans
* White Americans in California
* White people
* Amish in Maryland
* Native American tribes in Maryland
* Hispanics and Latinos in Maryland
* History of the Jews in Maryland
* Mennonites in Maryland

## References

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1. ^ MARYLAND: 2020 Census
2. ^ Whites who are in Maryland
3. ^ "B03002 HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE - Maryland - 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. July 1, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
4. ^ "B03002 HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE - Maryland - 2018 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. July 1, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
5. ^ "States of Change: The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060" (PDF). Center for American Progress. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
6. ^ "White children in the minority in 10 states – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs". News.blogs.cnn.com. April 6, 2011. Archived from the original on April 8, 2011. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
7. ^ "Births: Final Data for 2015" (PDF). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
8. ^ Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "American FactFinder – Results". Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
9. ^ Maryland: A History of Its People. p. 12.
10. ^ a b Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD (2013). "Maryland Historical Chronology: 10,000 B.C. - 1599." Maryland Manual On-Line.
11. ^ "The Spanish in the Chesapeake Bay". Charles A. Grymes. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
12. ^ "Early European Expansion".
13. ^ "Religious tradition among adults in Maryland by race/ethnicity". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
14. ^ "Maryland Voter Surveys: How Different Groups Voted". The New York Times. November 3, 2020. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
15. ^ "GOP race to succeed Maryland Gov. Hogan opens up with Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford opting out, Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz announcing she's in". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
16. ^ "MICHAEL S. STEELE". Maryland State Archives. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
17. ^ "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend". Maryland State Archives. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
18. ^ "IN 2020, 15 HATE GROUPS WERE TRACKED IN MARYLAND". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
19. ^ "12 Hate Groups Found In Md". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
20. ^ "Maryland governor pardons 34 victims of racial lynching". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
21. ^ "Talbot Boys Confederate monument to be removed on courthouse grounds on Maryland's Eastern Shore". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2021-10-05.

## Bibliography

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* Durr, Kenneth D., Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980, 2007, The University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807854336

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Groups|

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Cities|

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European Americans

Central Europe|

* Austrian
* Czech
* German
* Sorbian
* Mennonite
* Amish
* German Texan
* Pennsylvania Dutch
* German Mennonites from Russia
* Hungarian
* Hungarian Ohioans
* Liechtensteiner
* Polish
* Kashubian
* Slovak
* Swiss

Eastern Europe|

* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Belarusian
* Georgian
* Russian
* Chechen
* Circassian
* Cossack
* Kalmyk
* Ukrainian
* Rusyn

Northern Europe|

* Danish
* Estonian
* Faroese
* Finnish
* Greenlandic
* Icelandic
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Norwegian
* Norwegian Dakotan
* Norwegian Minnesotan
* Sámi
* Swedish

Southeast Europe|

* Albanian
* Bosnian
* Bulgarian
* Cypriot
* Croatian
* Greek
* Kosovan
* Macedonian
* Montenegrin
* Romanian
* Moldovan
* Slovene
* Serbian
* Alaskan Serbs
* Turkish
* Yugoslav

Southern Europe|

* Italian
* Before 1880
* Sicilian
* Maltese
* Portuguese
* Sammarinese
* Spanish
* Asturian
* Basque
* Canarian
* Catalan
* Galician

Western Europe|

* Belgian
* British
* Cornish
* English
* Manx
* Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots
* Scottish
* Welsh
* Dutch
* Frisian
* French
* Breton
* Corsican
* Acadian
* Cajun
* Canadian
* Huguenot
* Irish
* Irish Traveller
* Luxembourgian

Other Europeans|

* White Americans
* Non-Hispanic whites
* White Hispanic and Latino
* Melungeon
* Métis
* Louisiana Creole
* Cajun
* Isleños
* French Canadian
* Acadian
* Cajun

By region|

* Appalachia
* California
* San Francisco
* Hawaii
* White Southerners
* Arkansas
* Louisiana
* Maryland

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* Bold refers to countries, regions and territories in which the majority ethnic group is generally considered to be people of white European descent.

European emigration
by location|

| Africa|

* Algeria
* Angola
* Botswana
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Kenya
* Malawi
* Morocco
* Namibia
* Reunion
* South Africa
* Tunisia
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

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Asia|

* China
* India
* Pakistan

North America|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Bermuda
* Canada
* Caribbean
* Cayman Islands
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Panama
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* California
* Hawaii
* Louisiana
* Maryland
* Baltimore
* Southern United States
* Puerto Rico

South America|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Suriname
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Oceania|

* Australia
* New Caledonia
* Hawaii
* New Zealand

Historical concepts|

* Apartheid
* Aryan
* Blanqueamiento
* Castas
* Peninsulares
* Criollos
* First white child
* Honorary whites
* Play the white man
* Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness
* Settler colonialism
* White Australia policy
* The White Man's Burden
* White gods

Sociological
phenomena and theories|

* Acting white (Passing as white)
* Missing white woman syndrome
* Skin whitening
* White flight
* White guilt
* White privilege
* Whiteness studies
* Whitewashing in art
* Whitewashing in film
* White savior
* White demographic decline
* White people terms
* White supremacy
* Reverse racism
* Anti-white racism

Negative stereotypes of Whites|

* In the United States
* Appalachian stereotypes
* Hillbilly
* Mountain whites
* Poor Whites
* Redlegs
* Rednecks
* White trash
* Karen
* Angry white male
* Becky
* Basic
* Trixie
* White monkey

White identity politics|

* US definitions of whiteness
* One-drop rule
* Alt-right
* Christian Identity
* European New Right
* Great Replacement
* Identitarian movement
* Non-Hispanic whites
* Old Stock
* Americans
* Canadians
* Quebeckers
* White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
* White ethnic
* White genocide conspiracy theory
* White Hispanic
* White identity
* White nationalism
* White pride
* White supremacy

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