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)	241,368	99.11%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,169	0.89%	100.00%
Mexican	522	0.21%	24.07%
Puerto Rican	436	0.18%	20.10%
Cuban	145	0.06%	6.69%
Dominican	82	0.03%	3.78%
Central American	243	0.10%	11.20%
Costa Rican	7	0.00%	0.32%
Guatemalan	37	0.02%	1.71%
Honduran	24	0.01%	1.11%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.23%
Panamanian	9	0.00%	0.41%
Salvadorian	156	0.06%	7.19%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.23%
South American	174	0.07%	8.02%
Argentinian	16	0.01%	0.74%
Bolivian	7	0.00%	0.32%
Chilean	23	0.01%	1.06%
Columbian	53	0.02%	2.44%
Ecuadorian	20	0.01%	0.92%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.28%
Peruvian	32	0.01%	1.48%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	11	0.00%	0.51%
Other South American	5	0.00%	0.23%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	567	0.23%	26.14%
Spaniard	39	0.02%	1.80%
Spanish	123	0.05%	5.67%
Spanish American	17	0.01%	0.78%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	388	0.16%	17.89%

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

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