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)	1,279,184	76.02%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	403,401	23.98%	100.00%
Mexican	323,489	19.23%	80.19%
Puerto Rican	6,396	0.38%	1.59%
Cuban	1,852	0.11%	0.46%
Dominican	180	0.01%	0.04%
Central American	12,032	0.72%	2.98%
Costa Rican	324	0.02%	0.08%
Guatemalan	1,880	0.11%	0.47%
Honduran	950	0.06%	0.24%
Nicaraguan	2,459	0.15%	0.61%
Panamanian	345	0.02%	0.09%
Salvadorian	4,975	0.30%	1.23%
Other Central American	1,099	0.07%	0.27%
South American	6,856	0.41%	1.70%
Argentinian	737	0.04%	0.18%
Bolivian	482	0.03%	0.12%
Chilean	775	0.05%	0.19%
Columbian	1,180	0.07%	0.29%
Ecuadorian	328	0.02%	0.08%
Paraguayan	34	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	2,208	0.13%	0.55%
Uruguayan	52	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	379	0.02%	0.09%
Other South American	681	0.04%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	52,596	3.13%	13.04%
Spaniard	1,212	0.07%	0.30%
Spanish	8,590	0.51%	2.13%
Spanish American	447	0.03%	0.11%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	42,347	2.52%	10.50%

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

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