Harrison County

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)	184,691	97.41%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,910	2.59%	100.00%
Mexican	1,953	1.03%	39.78%
Puerto Rican	867	0.46%	17.66%
Cuban	223	0.12%	4.54%
Dominican	43	0.02%	0.88%
Central American	323	0.17%	6.58%
Costa Rican	29	0.02%	0.59%
Guatemalan	30	0.02%	0.61%
Honduran	90	0.05%	1.83%
Nicaraguan	32	0.02%	0.65%
Panamanian	98	0.05%	2.00%
Salvadorian	22	0.01%	0.45%
Other Central American	22	0.01%	0.45%
South American	195	0.10%	3.97%
Argentinian	11	0.01%	0.22%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	5	0.00%	0.10%
Columbian	95	0.05%	1.93%
Ecuadorian	19	0.01%	0.39%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	26	0.01%	0.53%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	26	0.01%	0.53%
Other South American	11	0.01%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,306	0.69%	26.60%
Spaniard	50	0.03%	1.02%
Spanish	270	0.14%	5.50%
Spanish American	31	0.02%	0.63%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	955	0.50%	19.45%

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

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