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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Wells" title="Spanish Wells">Spanish Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dunmore_Town" title="Dunmore Town">Dunmore Town</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eleuthera" title="Eleuthera">Eleuthera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abaco_Islands" title="Abaco Islands">Abaco Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Long_Island,_Bahamas" title="Long Island, Bahamas">Long Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Providence" title="New Providence">New Providence</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Bahamian_English" title="Bahamian English">Bahamian English</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bahamian_Creole" title="Bahamian Creole">Bahamian Creole</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>White Bahamians</b> are <a href="/wiki/Bahamians" title="Bahamians">Bahamian</a> citizens of European ancestry, most of whom trace their ancestry back to <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. Bahamians of European descent are sometimes called "<a href="/wiki/Conch_(people)" title="Conch (people)">Conchs</a>", a term that is also applied to people of White Bahamian descent in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. White Bahamians were a majority in the 18th century, but now constitute less than 10% of the Bahamian population.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Bahamians&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the Americas was in the Bahamas, but after the Spanish had removed all of the native <a href="/wiki/Lucayan_people" title="Lucayan people">Lucayans</a> from the archipelago by 1520, they showed little interest in the islands. A group of religious dissidents from <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> who settled on <a href="/wiki/Eleuthera" title="Eleuthera">Eleuthera</a> in 1648 consisted primarily of people of European descent, but included a few slaves of African descent. Later migrants from Bermuda to Eleuthera also consisted primarily of white people, but included a few free and enslaved black people. Starting in 1666, immigrants, again primarily white, from Bermuda, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, and elsewhere began settling on <a href="/wiki/New_Providence" title="New Providence">New Providence</a> and other islands in the Bahamas.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1783 blacks outnumbered whites in the Bahamas. The Bahamas remained loyal to Britain during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. During and after the war, approximately 1,600 white <a href="/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalist</a> refugees, many with slaves of African descent, settled in the Bahamas. A survey in 1783 found 1,380 taxable persons, presumably adult males, in the islands. About two-thirds of those taxable persons were black, primarily slaves. In 1788, the number of white male heads of families had increased by a little over one-half, while the number of slaves had almost tripled.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After World War II, greater accessibility to the US mainland led to the rapid growth of industry. The minority white population benefited most from this new-found prosperity, as they controlled the government and economy. White Bahamians owned many successful hotels, restaurants, and stores at a time when American money was flowing into the economy and causing the construction of numerous new hotels and other establishments.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966, White Bahamians constituted approximately 11.5% of the population of the Bahamas.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Bahamians&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>White Bahamians constitute the majority (81.95%) of the district of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Wells" title="Spanish Wells">Spanish Wells</a>, which is located on St. George's Cay and Russell Island, north of <a href="/wiki/Eleuthera" title="Eleuthera">Eleuthera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White Bahamians are also a significant minority in <a href="/wiki/Long_Island,_Bahamas" title="Long Island, Bahamas">Long Island</a> (18.07%) and the <a href="/wiki/Abaco_Islands" title="Abaco Islands">Abaco Islands</a> (13.76%), in which several settlements and small cays are majority white.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest concentration of white people in the Bahamas is in <a href="/wiki/New_Providence" title="New Providence">New Providence</a>, which is home to 9,436 white Bahamians as of 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-13" 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