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)	2,104,879	81.54%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	476,627	18.46%	100.00%
Mexican	312,598	12.11%	65.59%
Puerto Rican	6,891	0.27%	1.45%
Cuban	2,612	0.10%	0.55%
Dominican	355	0.01%	0.07%
Central American	6,190	0.24%	1.30%
Costa Rican	264	0.01%	0.06%
Guatemalan	1,569	0.06%	0.33%
Honduran	843	0.03%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	258	0.01%	0.05%
Panamanian	455	0.02%	0.10%
Salvadorian	2,382	0.09%	0.50%
Other Central American	419	0.02%	0.09%
South American	5,176	0.20%	1.09%
Argentinian	500	0.02%	0.10%
Bolivian	243	0.01%	0.05%
Chilean	506	0.02%	0.11%
Columbian	1,232	0.05%	0.26%
Ecuadorian	289	0.01%	0.06%
Paraguayan	35	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	1,469	0.06%	0.31%
Uruguayan	46	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	516	0.02%	0.11%
Other South American	340	0.01%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	142,805	5.53%	29.96%
Spaniard	1,442	0.06%	0.30%
Spanish	30,022	1.16%	6.30%
Spanish American	5,481	0.21%	1.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	105,860	4.10%	22.21%

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

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