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)	1,189,314	89.16%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	144,600	10.84%	100.00%
Mexican	97,569	7.31%	67.48%
Puerto Rican	2,908	0.22%	2.01%
Cuban	665	0.05%	0.46%
Dominican	203	0.02%	0.14%
Central American	4,289	0.32%	2.97%
Costa Rican	228	0.02%	0.16%
Guatemalan	1,423	0.11%	0.98%
Honduran	415	0.03%	0.29%
Nicaraguan	226	0.02%	0.16%
Panamanian	162	0.01%	0.11%
Salvadorian	1,654	0.12%	1.14%
Other Central American	181	0.01%	0.13%
South American	5,998	0.45%	4.15%
Argentinian	709	0.05%	0.49%
Bolivian	223	0.02%	0.15%
Chilean	850	0.06%	0.59%
Columbian	960	0.07%	0.66%
Ecuadorian	382	0.03%	0.26%
Paraguayan	17	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	1,513	0.11%	1.05%
Uruguayan	200	0.01%	0.14%
Venezuelan	883	0.07%	0.61%
Other South American	261	0.02%	0.18%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	32,968	2.47%	22.80%
Spaniard	622	0.05%	0.43%
Spanish	6,448	0.48%	4.46%
Spanish American	965	0.07%	0.67%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	24,933	1.87%	17.24%

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

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