Whitfield 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)	65,106	77.95%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	18,419	22.05%	100.00%
Mexican	15,719	18.82%	85.34%
Puerto Rican	248	0.30%	1.35%
Cuban	95	0.11%	0.52%
Dominican	52	0.06%	0.28%
Central American	762	0.91%	4.14%
Costa Rican	19	0.02%	0.10%
Guatemalan	385	0.46%	2.09%
Honduran	59	0.07%	0.32%
Nicaraguan	43	0.05%	0.23%
Panamanian	12	0.01%	0.07%
Salvadorian	227	0.27%	1.23%
Other Central American	17	0.02%	0.09%
South American	95	0.11%	0.52%
Argentinian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	12	0.01%	0.07%
Columbian	24	0.03%	0.13%
Ecuadorian	11	0.01%	0.06%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	24	0.03%	0.13%
Uruguayan	5	0.01%	0.03%
Venezuelan	16	0.02%	0.09%
Other South American	3	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,448	1.73%	7.86%
Spaniard	16	0.02%	0.09%
Spanish	87	0.10%	0.47%
Spanish American	1	0.00%	0.01%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,344	1.61%	7.30%

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

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