<sod>'''White Americans''' are [[Americans|people of the United States]] who are considered or reported as [[White people|White]]. The [[United States Census Bureau]] defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, or the Middle East." It includes people who indicated their race(s) as "White" or reported entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian"<ref name="Census2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf |title=Definition of Race Categories Used in the 2010 Census |date=March 2011 |editors=Karen R. Humes, Nicholas A. Jones, and Roberto R. Ramirez |publisher=United States Census Bureau |page=3 |format=PDF |accessdate=September 8, 2013}}</ref> and so is a wider group than [[European American]]. Like all official U.S. racial categories, "White" has a [[Non-Hispanic Whites|"Not Hispanic or Latino"]] and a [[White Hispanic and Latino Americans|"Hispanic or Latino"]] component,<ref name=Census>{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-4.pdf|title=The White Population: 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|date=August 2001|accessdate=10 March 2011}}</ref> the latter consisting mostly of [[White Mexicans|White]] [[Mexican Americans]] and White [[Cuban Americans]]. The term "[[Caucasian race|Caucasian]]" is often used interchangeably with "White", although the terms are not synonymous.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2198124/|title=Do white people really come from the Caucasus?|first=Derek|last=Thompson|work=Slate|date=19 August 2008|accessdate=10 March 2011}} ''Caucasians included most Europeans, Northern Africans, and Asians as far east as the Ganges Delta in modern India.''</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/issues/vi-spr01/docs/lee.pdf|title=The meanings of "race" in the new genomics: Implications for health disparities research|first1=Sandra Soo-Jin|last1=Lee|first2=Joanna|last2=Mountain|first3=Barbara A.|last3=Koenig|year=2001|journal=Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics|volume=2001|issue=1|pages=33–75|pmid=12669320}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America] By Dominic J. Pulera.</ref><ref>Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', ''Demography'', Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44-6.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82-86.</ref><eod>
<sod>'''White Americans''' are [[Americans|people of the United States]] who are considered or reported as [[White people|White]]. The [[United States Census Bureau]] defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as "White" or reported entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian"<ref name="Census2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf |title=Definition of Race Categories Used in the 2010 Census |date=March 2011 |editors=Karen R. Humes, Nicholas A. Jones, and Roberto R. Ramirez |publisher=United States Census Bureau |page=3 |format=PDF |accessdate=September 8, 2013}}</ref> and so is a wider group than [[European American]]. Like all official U.S. racial categories, "White" has a [[Non-Hispanic Whites|"Not Hispanic or Latino"]] and a [[White Hispanic and Latino Americans|"Hispanic or Latino"]] component,<ref name=Census>{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-4.pdf|title=The White Population: 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|date=August 2001|accessdate=10 March 2011}}</ref> the latter consisting mostly of [[White Mexicans|White]] [[Mexican Americans]] and White [[Cuban Americans]]. The term "[[Caucasian race|Caucasian]]" is often used interchangeably with "White", although the terms are not synonymous.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2198124/|title=Do white people really come from the Caucasus?|first=Derek|last=Thompson|work=Slate|date=19 August 2008|accessdate=10 March 2011}} ''Caucasians included most Europeans, Northern Africans, and Asians as far east as the Ganges Delta in modern India.''</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/issues/vi-spr01/docs/lee.pdf|title=The meanings of "race" in the new genomics: Implications for health disparities research|first1=Sandra Soo-Jin|last1=Lee|first2=Joanna|last2=Mountain|first3=Barbara A.|last3=Koenig|year=2001|journal=Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics|volume=2001|issue=1|pages=33–75|pmid=12669320}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America] By Dominic J. Pulera.</ref><ref>Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', ''Demography'', Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44-6.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82-86.</ref><eod>