<Tr> <Td> Two or more races </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td> 1.0% </Td> <Td> 1.5% </Td> </Tr> <P> Based on historic migration and settlement patterns in the southern colonies and states, demographers estimated there are more people in Alabama of Scots - Irish origins than self - reported . Many people in Alabama claim Irish ancestry because of the term Scots - Irish but, based on historic immigration and settlement, their ancestors were more likely Protestant Scots - Irish coming from northern Ireland, where they had been for a few generations as part of the English colonization . The Scots - Irish were the largest non-English immigrant group from the British Isles before the American Revolution, and many settled in the South, later moving into the Deep South as it was developed . </P> <P> In 1984, under the Davis--Strong Act, the state legislature established the Alabama Indian Affairs Commission . Native American groups within the state had increasingly been demanding recognition as ethnic groups and seeking an end to discrimination . Given the long history of slavery and associated racial segregation, the Native American peoples, who have sometimes been of mixed race, have insisted on having their cultural identification respected . In the past, their self - identification was often overlooked as the state tried to impose a binary breakdown of society into white and black . </P> <P> The state has officially recognized nine American Indian tribes in the state, descended mostly from the Five Civilized Tribes of the American Southeast . These are: </P>

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