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Originally Posted by Docere
If 30% of Londoners have some Irish ancestry, that's roughly 75% of all white British/Irish (even accounting for the very small number of nonwhites with Irish ancestry) and over half of all whites. That's absurd.
In the Boston area maybe about a third of all whites are of Irish ancestry.
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But Boston has a ton of other white ethnicities besides Irish. It was never even remotely close to 100% ethnic Irish. It's not like London, with white populations that almost totally comprised of ethnic British and ethnic Irish.