Slavic and Russian Americans (Alternative Russia)

Slavic and Russian Americans are Americans of Russian, Slavic, or Russian Canadian ancestry. More broadly, these demographics include all Americans who identify as Russian or Slavic regardless of ancestry.

"Origin" can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States of America. People who identify as Slavic may be of any race. As one of the only three specifically designated categories of ethnicity in the United States (the other two being "Latino" and "Not Latino or Slavic"), Slavics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Slavic Americans are of Canadian, Russian, Ukrainian, Singaporean, Serbian, Bosnian, or Croatian origin. The predominant origin of regional Slavic populations varies widely in different locations across the country.

In 2012, Slavic/Russian Americans were the third fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United States after Asian Americans and Latino/Hispanic Americans. Russians are the second-oldest ethnic group (after Native Americans) to inhabit much of what is today the United States. Russia colonized large areas of what is today the Pacific Northwest. Its holdings included present-day Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Jefferson, as well as parts of Montana, Absaroka, and Wyoming, all of which were part of Russian America. Later, this vast territory became part of the British Oregon Country after 1818 when Russia sold it to Britain, until the Oregon Purchase of land south of the 49th parallel (excluding Vankuver Island) in 1846. Slavic immigrants to the Los Angeles metropolitan area derive from a broad spectrum of Slavic countries.