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)	2,586,534	96.75%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	86,866	3.25%	100.00%
Mexican	61,204	2.29%	70.46%
Puerto Rican	2,473	0.09%	2.85%
Cuban	950	0.04%	1.09%
Dominican	93	0.00%	0.11%
Central American	5,753	0.22%	6.62%
Costa Rican	133	0.00%	0.15%
Guatemalan	1,044	0.04%	1.20%
Honduran	490	0.02%	0.56%
Nicaraguan	174	0.01%	0.20%
Panamanian	244	0.01%	0.28%
Salvadorian	3,471	0.13%	4.00%
Other Central American	197	0.01%	0.23%
South American	1,069	0.04%	1.23%
Argentinian	83	0.00%	0.10%
Bolivian	96	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	94	0.00%	0.11%
Columbian	334	0.01%	0.38%
Ecuadorian	90	0.00%	0.10%
Paraguayan	8	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	191	0.01%	0.22%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	108	0.00%	0.12%
Other South American	59	0.00%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	15,324	0.57%	17.64%
Spaniard	169	0.01%	0.19%
Spanish	1,894	0.07%	2.18%
Spanish American	237	0.01%	0.27%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	13,024	0.49%	14.99%

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

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