White American

White American (often used interchangeably with "Caucasian American" and, within the United States, simply "white") is an umbrella term officially employed by the United States Census Bureau and other U.S. government agencies, per standards issued by the Office of Management and Budget, for the classification of United States citizens or resident aliens "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". German Americans (16.5%), Irish Americans (11.9%), English Americans (9.0%), Italian Americans (5.8%), Polish Americans (3.3%), French Americans (3.1%), Scottish Americans (1.9%), Dutch Americans (1.6%), Norwegian Americans (1.5%), Swedish Americans (1.4%), Scotch-Irish Americans (1.2%), Russian Americans (1.0%), and Welsh Americans (0.7%) make up 58.9% of the White population. Like all U.S. racial categories, White American has a "Not Hispanic or Latino" and a "Hispanic or Latino" (mainly Mexican American) component. Whites constitute the majority, with 80% (66% non-Hispanic and 14% Hispanic) or 75% (65% non-Hispanic and 10% Hispanic) of the U.S. population.