Foreign stock population in US cities, 1890

[King of Kensington]

Vol. 1, Issue 1 of the 1890 census, pages 708-728.  This data is hard to find as it is not presented in a particularly accessible manner, but I tallied up the relevant figures.

New York

German  445,015  29.4%
Irish  431,516  28.5%
British  98,431  6.5% (70,641 English, 25,353 Scots and 2,437 Welsh)
Russian  72,974  4.8%
Italian  55,905  3.7%

Brooklyn  

German  218,361  27.1%
Irish  216,097  26.7%
British  85,648  10.6% (65,053 English, 18,963 Scots and 1,632 Welsh)

Chicago

German  332,242  30.2%
Irish  183,844  16.7%
British  89,360  8.1% (63,171 English, 22,314 Scots and 3,875 Welsh)
Swedish  64,107  5.8%
Bohemian  42,748  3.9%

Philadelphia

Irish  275,446  26.3%
German  180,276  17.2%
British  102,408  9.8% (78,771 English, 20,049 Scots and 3,588 Welsh)

Boston

Irish  173,969  38.8%
English Canadian  49,935  11.1%
British  41,424  9.2% (28,575 English, 12,220 Scots and 629 Welsh)

San Francisco

Irish  79,883  26.7%
German  57,917  19.4%
British  31,764  10.6% (22,369 English, 8,417 Scots and 978 Welsh)

Pittsburgh

German  63,925  26.8%
Irish  57,313  24%
British  28,776  12.1% (18,219 English, 4,740 Scots and 5,817 Welsh)

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Native white native parentage:

New York  21.2%
Chicago  20.3%
Philadelphia  39.6%
Boston  30.3%
San Francisco  20.8%
Pittsburgh  31%

In other words, both Irish and Germans outnumbered NWNP's in New York, the Germans outnumbered NWNP's in Chicago and the Irish outnumbered them in Boston and San Francisco.

[RI]

This data is hard to find as it is not presented in a particularly accessible manner, but I tallied up the relevant figures.

I believe you can get a spreadsheet on this by county through NHGIS.

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Cleveland

German  87,122  33.3%
Irish  36,262  13.8%
British  31,905  12.2% (23,728 English, 5,248 Scots and 2,929 Welsh)
Bohemian  18,118  6.9%

Detroit

German  75,202  36.5%
British  26,949  13.1% (17,937 English, 8,067 Scots and 945 Welsh)
Irish  25,093  12.2%
English Canadian  19,125  9.3%

Buffalo

German  107,965  42.2%
Irish  35,801  14%
British  21,157  8.3% (17,473 English, 3,372 Scots and 312 Welsh)
English Canadian  12,619  4.9%

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The Twin Cities:

Minneapolis

Scandinavian  50,107  30.5% (27,988 Swedes, 19,693 Norwegians and 2,426 Danes)
German  19,068  11.6%
Irish  14,857  9%
Canadian  12,724  7.7% (9,726 English Canadian, 2,998 French Canadian)
British  10,632  6.5% (6,760 English, 3,129 Scots and 743 Welsh)

St. Paul

German  34,375  25.8%
Scandinavian  24,603  18.5% (16,574 Swedes, 5,814 Norwegians and 2,215 Danes)
Irish  18,483  13.9%
British  8,829  6.6% (6,064 English, 2,541 Scots and 224 Welsh)
Canadian  7,902  5.9% (9,726 English Canadian, 2,226 French Canadian)

[jimrtex]

The Twin Cities:

Minneapolis

Scandinavian  50,107  30.5% (27,988 Swedes, 19,693 Norwegians and 2,426 Danes)
German  19,068  11.6%
Irish  14,857  9%
Canadian  12,724  7.7% (9,726 English Canadian, 2,998 French Canadian)
British  10,632  6.5% (6,760 English, 3,129 Scots and 743 Welsh)

St. Paul

German  34,375  25.8%
Scandinavian  24,603  18.5% (16,574 Swedes, 5,814 Norwegians and 2,215 Danes)
Irish  18,483  13.9%
British  8,829  6.6% (6,064 English, 2,541 Scots and 224 Welsh)
Canadian  7,902  5.9% (9,726 English Canadian, 2,226 French Canadian)

When looking at the old census data, I was struck by how distinctive the Twin Cities were, with Germans and Irish dominant in St. Paul, and Scandinavians in Minneapolis.

You will find similar differentiation at the county level, with Germans more prevalent in the earlier settled counties in the south. I think there are a couple of outlier counties as well.

[Skill and Chance]

Pennsylvania isn't nearly as German as I thought it was during that time period.

[King of Kensington]

Pennsylvania isn't nearly as German as I thought it was during that time period.

These are 1st and 2nd generation German Americans.  Those of colonial German ancestry (of which there are many in PA) would be in the NWNP category.

Here's a book about the relationship between 19th century German immigrants and colonial stock German Americans in Philadelphia:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=1Hj3i389D_sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=becoming+old+stock&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ1Z-ZxNTSAhVC8IMKHSwLDQIQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=becoming%20old%20stock&f=false

[King of Kensington]

Three upstate NY cities:

Albany

Irish  29,377  30.9%
German  20,723  21.8%
British  6,419  6.8% (4,608 English, 1,694 Scots and 117 Welsh)

Syracuse

German  20,554  23.3%
Irish  19,649  22.3%
British  7,228  8.2% (6,043 English, 991 Scots and 194 Welsh)

Rochester

German  44,571  33.3%
Irish  22,044  16.4%
British  15,072  11.3% (12,241 English, 2,623 Scots and 208 Welsh)

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St. Louis

German  187,427  41.5%
Irish  68,174  15.1%

Baltimore

German  113,405  26.1%
Irish  40,007  9.2%

New Orleans

German  42,246  17.5%
Irish  26,991  11.2%
French  18,400  7.6%
Italian  7,508  3.1%