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)	3,843,347	93.46%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	268,851	6.54%	100.00%
Mexican	165,109	4.02%	61.41%
Puerto Rican	19,358	0.47%	7.20%
Cuban	9,206	0.22%	3.42%
Dominican	2,452	0.06%	0.91%
Central American	21,345	0.52%	7.94%
Costa Rican	935	0.02%	0.35%
Guatemalan	5,751	0.14%	2.14%
Honduran	4,157	0.10%	1.55%
Nicaraguan	1,074	0.03%	0.40%
Panamanian	1,829	0.04%	0.68%
Salvadorian	6,731	0.16%	2.50%
Other Central American	868	0.02%	0.32%
South American	16,012	0.39%	5.96%
Argentinian	830	0.02%	0.31%
Bolivian	248	0.01%	0.09%
Chilean	721	0.02%	0.27%
Columbian	7,661	0.19%	2.85%
Ecuadorian	1,154	0.03%	0.43%
Paraguayan	121	0.00%	0.05%
Peruvian	2,429	0.06%	0.90%
Uruguayan	424	0.01%	0.16%
Venezuelan	1,831	0.04%	0.68%
Other South American	593	0.01%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	35,369	0.86%	13.16%
Spaniard	759	0.02%	0.28%
Spanish	4,091	0.10%	1.52%
Spanish American	388	0.01%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	30,131	0.73%	11.21%

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

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