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)	1,279,181	95.62%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	58,545	4.38%	100.00%
Mexican	10,202	0.76%	17.43%
Puerto Rican	3,677	0.27%	6.28%
Cuban	5,787	0.43%	9.88%
Dominican	679	0.05%	1.16%
Central American	14,821	1.11%	25.32%
Costa Rican	495	0.04%	0.85%
Guatemalan	1,686	0.13%	2.88%
Honduran	8,112	0.61%	13.86%
Nicaraguan	2,485	0.19%	4.24%
Panamanian	417	0.03%	0.71%
Salvadorian	788	0.06%	1.35%
Other Central American	838	0.06%	1.43%
South American	2,497	0.19%	4.27%
Argentinian	215	0.02%	0.37%
Bolivian	55	0.00%	0.09%
Chilean	165	0.01%	0.28%
Columbian	953	0.07%	1.63%
Ecuadorian	338	0.03%	0.58%
Paraguayan	4	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	296	0.02%	0.51%
Uruguayan	24	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	305	0.02%	0.52%
Other South American	142	0.01%	0.24%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	20,882	1.56%	35.67%
Spaniard	578	0.04%	0.99%
Spanish	3,904	0.29%	6.67%
Spanish American	337	0.03%	0.58%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	16,063	1.20%	27.44%

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

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