Austrian Americans

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Austrian Americans (German: Österreichamerikaner, pronounced [ˈøːstɐraɪçameriˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans of Austrian descent, chiefly German-speaking Catholics and Jews. According to the 2000 U.S. census, there were 735,128 Americans of full or partial Austrian descent, accounting for 0.3% of the population. The true figure is difficult to pin down given the fluid borders and successive political reorganizations of the Habsburg monarchy and Central Europe, which at times included the multi-ethnic Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. The states with the largest Austrian American populations are New York (93,083), California (84,959), Pennsylvania (58,002, most of them in the Lehigh Valley), Florida (54,214), New Jersey (45,154), and Ohio (27,017). Many Americans of German, Czech, Polish, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, and Ukrainian descent can also trace their ancestry to former Habsburg territories, meaning the population figures for Austrian Americans likely represents an undercount. These regions...

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