Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

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)	385,111	98.17%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	7,191	1.83%	100.00%
Mexican	3,949	1.01%	54.92%
Puerto Rican	702	0.18%	9.76%
Cuban	151	0.04%	2.10%
Dominican	61	0.02%	0.85%
Central American	236	0.06%	3.28%
Costa Rican	14	0.00%	0.19%
Guatemalan	25	0.01%	0.35%
Honduran	41	0.01%	0.57%
Nicaraguan	42	0.01%	0.58%
Panamanian	65	0.02%	0.90%
Salvadorian	36	0.01%	0.50%
Other Central American	13	0.00%	0.18%
South American	181	0.05%	2.52%
Argentinian	16	0.00%	0.22%
Bolivian	7	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	16	0.00%	0.22%
Columbian	57	0.01%	0.79%
Ecuadorian	30	0.01%	0.42%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	26	0.01%	0.36%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	24	0.01%	0.33%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.06%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,911	0.49%	26.57%
Spaniard	43	0.01%	0.60%
Spanish	334	0.09%	4.64%
Spanish American	59	0.02%	0.82%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,475	0.38%	20.51%

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

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