Multicultural Bristol |
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Bristolians are a real mix of people, with
some Amish
Bristolians in Bristol, Indiana a place with 1,300 inhabitants. It has been said that
in Bristol, IN you can still catch a glimpse of what
small town life used
 to be , for more.. A majority white, Bristolian population, (mainly with American
ancestry, and also with ancestry from Germany, Ireland and England) can be
found in Bristol,
Tennesee-Virginia,
population around 40,000 (a twin City - on both sides of the border) with most of
the current immigrants coming from Europe. Bristol, South Dakota which is so small (approximately 419 people), is 100% white (although they appeared to have an Alaskan native living there in the '90s) and has a Roman Catholic church, Lutheran Church and Wesleyan Church, so presumably all the Bristolians there are Christian. But I can't verify that 'cos the state ain't allowed to ask people what religion they follow. Bristol Village, a retirement village in Ohio (www.bristolvillage.com) is a great mix of elderly people from all over the US. According to their website, Bristol village is within 500 miles of about 60% of the US population, www.bristolvillage.com/location. |
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Bristol Connecticut has around 60,000 inhabitants and
about 4,500 of them were born in a country other than
the USA (the country of Bristol, Connecticut.) About 89% of Bristol,
Connecticut's population
is white, over 3,000 people are Latino and there are around 2000
Black/African Americans
residing there. There are also 1000 Asian Bristolians living in Bristol. Almost 9,000 Bristolians speak a language other than English
at home. There is a
strong Italian
link with 21% of the
population claiming Italian Ancestry, also 18.5% of Connecticut
Bristolians reported
French ancestry. Irish ancestors make up 15.2% of the population,
beating the Polish with 12.8% of the
Bristol people. English,
French-Canadian,
American, Swedish and Scottish heritage are also all part and
parcel of the ancestry that makes up Bristol, Connecticut's population. I have
not mentioned ancestry traits with much lower than 1000, Connecticut
Bristolians, however many
other nationalities and cultures help make up the weave of Bristol, Connecticut. |
Bristol
Central H.S
did
a survey of their
culture (part of the Millennium
Bristol project)
A graph of the nationality of the students of Bristol Central - Who are we? (And are we becoming more Americanized?) |
| Bristol County,
Massachusetts is massive
with
535,000 people living in
her boundaries. Within Bristol County, there are many separate towns, see
my page Bristol - Counties, Towns and
Boroughs. 89% (478,000 people) of the
population of Bristol County is white,
3.6% are Latino (20,000 people) and 2% are African American (11,000
people). 105,500 people speak a language other than English
at home. The ancestry is varied, but a high amount of people (29%)
report Portuguese ancestry. The closest to that is Irish ancestry
with 17% of people. A Bristol
a
lot smaller than Bristol County
is Bristol Town, Vermont although
it is bigger than Bristols IN
and SD, clocking in with
nearly 3,800
residents, 98% of these Bristolians are white and the remaining
2 percent is a varied mixture of 75 people. Almost everyone (bar 76
people) speaks English at home. The highest ancestry is French with
a mixture of French and Canadian-French heritage making up 30.2% of
the population. American
(581
people/15.3%) ancestry, closely followed by English ancestry (579
people/15.3%) and Irish Descendants (569 people/14.9%) also is part
of the heritage of Bristol Town, Vermont. |
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In Rhode
Island there is a Bristol County - population 50,650,
within
which is Bristol Town (along
with
other towns and stuff) - population
22,450. See Bristol - Counties, Towns and Boroughs for more about the other towns in Bristol County. Bristol County is 96.1 percent white, the remaining 3.9% (1975 people) of Bristol County, RI are a varied mix of people with no main ethnic majority. The main heritage in Bristol County, RI is Portuguese with 26% of the people as descendants; followed by Italian at 19.8%, Irish at 17.5%, then English (14.5%) and French (9.5%) ancestry. As you may expect Bristol Town is a smaller group of people with a very similar demographic, but with seemingly higher proportions of strong ancestry, 37% are Portuguese descedants, which is the largest ethnic group in the town, claiming 8,300 people. Italian decedents make up 4,750 Bristolians of Bristol town having just over half the amount of descendants the Portuguese have. A higher percentage of people (21.4%) in Bristol town, in comparison with Bristol county speak a language other than English at home. |
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 Bristol, UK
is a city, population 380,800 some people who kinda live within
the city live in a neighbouring county because the City of Bristol county is smaller
than the whole city. These stats are based on people within Bristol councils county
boundaries. 94.9% of the population is white so if you do the
math you'll see 5.1% (around 20,000 people) are not. That's pretty much
all I can
tell you folks because the stats are a bit rubbish. In 1990 Black people (Caribbean,
African and other) made up 2.4% (somewhere around 9,200 people of
todays
population) of Bristolians, 1.7% were Asian (approx 6,000 of
todays pop.) and 0.5% (approx. 1,900 todays pop.) were Oriental.
6% (approx. 2,500 todays pop.) of people had other heritage.
To be continued...................... |
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| All Statistics come from Census material, Bristols in the USA stats are based on the 2000 census, Bristol, UK is based on a estimate for 2001 from the 1990 census (not gonna be quite so real then) | |
