L.A's new mayor reflects the city's melting pot

Los Angeles has a new mayor elect: Eric Garcetti. Big city politics are often ethnic politics. And just like the city he will run, Garcetti's background is appropriately mixed. He'll be the first Jewish person elected mayor in the city’s history. His father’s family are Mexicans of Italian descent, hence the Italian last name. His mother is of Russian- Jewish descent. Garcetti is currently a Los Angeles City Council member, and takes the Mayor's office on July 1.

Colorado's largest ancestry groups

German-Americans dominate in Colorado, with over 1 in 5 residents claiming German ancestry. Here is a list of the 50 largest ancestral groups in 2010:

Rank	Ancestry	Colorado Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	5,049,071	100.0%
1	German	1,083,815	21.5%
2	Irish	613,526	12.2%
3	English	546,865	10.8%
4	Italian	251,493	5.0%
5	American	243,886	4.8%
6	French (except Basque)	155,790	3.1%
7	Swedish	131,292	2.6%
8	Scottish	129,386	2.6%
9	Polish	125,929	2.5%
10	Norwegian	112,098	2.2%
11	European	111,207	2.2%
12	Dutch	92,816	1.8%
13	Scotch-Irish	65,306	1.3%
14	Russian	55,723	1.1%
15	Welsh	46,566	0.9%
16	Danish	45,505	0.9%
17	Czech	40,942	0.8%
18	British	28,859	0.6%
19	French Canadian	28,740	0.6%
20	Swiss	24,786	0.5%
21	Austrian	23,429	0.5%
22	Hungarian	21,284	0.4%
23	Canadian	19,044	0.4%
24	Greek	18,331	0.4%
25	Scandinavian	16,560	0.3%
26	African	13,031	0.3%
27	Northern European	12,493	0.2%
28	Finnish	12,318	0.2%
29	Ukrainian	10,234	0.2%
30	Portuguese	9,733	0.2%
31	Lithuanian	9,701	0.2%
32	Slovak	8,594	0.2%
33	Croatian	8,141	0.2%
34	Ethiopian	8,128	0.2%
35	Eastern European	7,474	0.1%
36	Belgian	7,007	0.1%
37	Czechoslovakian	6,682	0.1%
38	Iranian	6,658	0.1%
39	Slovene	6,314	0.1%
40	Yugoslavian	5,841	0.1%
41	Romanian	5,489	0.1%
42	Jamaican	4,789	0.1%
43	Slavic	4,295	0.1%
44	Lebanese	4,282	0.1%
45	Armenian	4,220	0.1%
46	Somalian	4,114	0.1%
47	Other Arab	3,406	0.1%
48	Australian	2,873	0.1%
49	Sudanese	2,708	0.1%
50	Bulgarian	2,486	0.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates