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White Californians are White Americans living in California. They currently make up 72.9%[when?] of the state's population. 38.0% of the population is non-Hispanic white.

As of 2015, California has the largest minority population in the United States. Non-Hispanic whites decreased from about 76.3 - 78% of the state's population in 1970 to 38.0% in 2015. It was estimated in 2015 that Hispanic and Latino Americans became more numerous than non-Latino White Americans for the first time. Since 2000 (the US Census), California has been known as the second state in US history (after Hawaii since its statehood in 1959) to have a non-white majority.

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The largest named ancestries of white Californians are Mexican (25%), German (9%), Irish(7.7%), English (7.4%), Italian ( 5.8% ); there are 65 other ethnicities with sizable populations in California including Albanians, Australians, Canadians and even White South Africans. Both Los Angeles and San Francisco have large numbers of residents with English, French, Italian, German, Palestinian, Iranian, Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian and Scandinavian ancestry.[citation needed]

Being the largest state in population, California also has the largest population of White Americans in the U.S., totaling 21,453,934 residents as of the 2010 census, as well as the largest population of non-Hispanic whites, 17,029,126. However California has the third smallest percentage number of non-Hispanic whites at 57.2%, behind New Mexico and Hawaii.

History[edit]
Further information: History of California

The first White people to come to the modern-day State of California were the Spanish people.

The California Gold Rush(1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The Gold Rush initiated the California Genocide, with 100,000 Native Californians dying between 1848 and 1868. This began the process of white people becoming the majority in present-day California.

Later White Americans from the East Coast of the United States and Midwestern United States arrived.

The percentage of people of non-Hispanic white ancestry continues to decrease dramatically.

San Francisco Bay Area[edit]
In 2000 the racial makeup of the nine-county Bay Area was 3,941,687 (58.1%) white and 3,392,204 (50.0%) non-Hispanic white.

In 2010 the Bay Area was 3,755,823 (52.5%) White. The Bay Area was 3,032,903 (42.4%) non-Hispanic white.

The percentage of non-Hispanic white people in the Bay Area is projected to decrease.

Central Valley[edit]
White Americans are the majority of the population in the Central Valley.

Los Angeles metropolitan area[edit]
54.6% White, 32.2% white alone.

Politics[edit]
Historically and presently, politics of California have been dominated by white people.

In the United States presidential election, 2016, California whites voted against Donald Trump by a 5 percentage point margin.

White Caucasian's make up 60% of registered voters in California.

Future[edit]
The non-Hispanic white population as a percentage of the whole is projected to decrease in California. This is due to both the increase of the non-white population. In this sense demographers see California as a prediction of what is to come in the rest of the United States.