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)	4,361,238	97.59%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	107,738	2.41%	100.00%
Mexican	32,267	0.72%	29.95%
Puerto Rican	7,670	0.17%	7.12%
Cuban	8,448	0.19%	7.84%
Dominican	940	0.02%	0.87%
Central American	17,327	0.39%	16.08%
Costa Rican	674	0.02%	0.63%
Guatemalan	2,093	0.05%	1.94%
Honduran	8,792	0.20%	8.16%
Nicaraguan	2,804	0.06%	2.60%
Panamanian	855	0.02%	0.79%
Salvadorian	1,127	0.03%	1.05%
Other Central American	982	0.02%	0.91%
South American	4,078	0.09%	3.79%
Argentinian	300	0.01%	0.28%
Bolivian	89	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	284	0.01%	0.26%
Columbian	1,533	0.03%	1.42%
Ecuadorian	478	0.01%	0.44%
Paraguayan	16	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	483	0.01%	0.45%
Uruguayan	39	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	648	0.01%	0.60%
Other South American	208	0.00%	0.19%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	37,008	0.83%	34.35%
Spaniard	925	0.02%	0.86%
Spanish	6,625	0.15%	6.15%
Spanish American	629	0.01%	0.58%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	28,829	0.65%	26.76%

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

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