Statistics
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE US VOLUNTEERS WHO SIGNED THE FAN
US volunteers represented more than half (52%) of the signatories of the fan.
More than half (56.25%) of the US volunteers were born between 1911 and 1916. They were adolescents at the onset of the Great Depression.
Almost 70% of the US volunteers were in their 20s when they signed the fan in 1938.
82% of the US volunteers had been born in the United States.
A quarter (25%) of the US volunteers came from New York and close to a third (32%) came from California. Combined, the two states accounted for 57% of the American volunteers.
Locations (States) mentioned
on the fan.
61.5% of the US volunteers had at least one parent born abroad.
Most of the volunteers (81%) had direct connections to Europe where they,or at least one parent, were born.
