ETHNIC AND RACIAL HERITAGE

The Census provides two different ways for respondents to indicate their heritage. The method shown here pertains to Asians, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and persons of Hispanic ethnicity. As a part of the race and ethnicity questions on the short form of the 2000 Census, members of these groups were asked to indicate one or more categories of racial or ethnic origin. In the case of Americans Indians and Alaskan Natives, respondents were given the opportunity to identify their affiliation with one or more tribes.

* Southern Asian includes Asian Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan.

** Southeastern Asian includes Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese.

*** Eastern Asian includes Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese.

Hispanic Ancestries, 2000
		Percent of	Percent of
	Number	Total Population	Hispanic Population
Total Non-Hispanic (All Races)	1,422,201	94.86%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	77,092	5.14%	100.00%
Mexican	46,574	3.11%	60.41%
Puerto Rican	4,872	0.32%	6.32%
Cuban	1,944	0.13%	2.52%
Dominican	637	0.04%	0.83%
Central American	8,087	0.54%	10.49%
Costa Rican	1,644	0.11%	2.13%
Guatemalan	772	0.05%	1.00%
Honduran	2,149	0.14%	2.79%
Nicaraguan	623	0.04%	0.81%
Panamanian	285	0.02%	0.37%
Salvadorian	2,345	0.16%	3.04%
Other Central American	269	0.02%	0.35%
South American	4,442	0.30%	5.76%
Argentinian	229	0.02%	0.30%
Bolivian	64	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	244	0.02%	0.32%
Columbian	1,622	0.11%	2.10%
Ecuadorian	1,019	0.07%	1.32%
Paraguayan	19	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	677	0.05%	0.88%
Uruguayan	59	0.00%	0.08%
Venezuelan	323	0.02%	0.42%
Other South American	186	0.01%	0.24%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	10,536	0.70%	13.67%
Spaniard	130	0.01%	0.17%
Spanish	1,114	0.07%	1.45%
Spanish American	127	0.01%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	9,165	0.61%	11.89%

Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).

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