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)	781,040	82.32%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	167,776	17.68%	100.00%
Mexican	112,245	11.83%	66.90%
Puerto Rican	4,957	0.52%	2.95%
Cuban	1,167	0.12%	0.70%
Dominican	114	0.01%	0.07%
Central American	13,693	1.44%	8.16%
Costa Rican	282	0.03%	0.17%
Guatemalan	1,633	0.17%	0.97%
Honduran	304	0.03%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	2,872	0.30%	1.71%
Panamanian	412	0.04%	0.25%
Salvadorian	6,801	0.72%	4.05%
Other Central American	1,389	0.15%	0.83%
South American	4,862	0.51%	2.90%
Argentinian	411	0.04%	0.24%
Bolivian	174	0.02%	0.10%
Chilean	478	0.05%	0.28%
Columbian	683	0.07%	0.41%
Ecuadorian	219	0.02%	0.13%
Paraguayan	20	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	2,198	0.23%	1.31%
Uruguayan	18	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	185	0.02%	0.11%
Other South American	476	0.05%	0.28%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	30,738	3.24%	18.32%
Spaniard	667	0.07%	0.40%
Spanish	6,221	0.66%	3.71%
Spanish American	316	0.03%	0.19%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	23,534	2.48%	14.03%

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

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