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)	368,124	99.49%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,869	0.51%	100.00%
Mexican	662	0.18%	35.42%
Puerto Rican	360	0.10%	19.26%
Cuban	118	0.03%	6.31%
Dominican	25	0.01%	1.34%
Central American	45	0.01%	2.41%
Costa Rican	3	0.00%	0.16%
Guatemalan	10	0.00%	0.54%
Honduran	4	0.00%	0.21%
Nicaraguan	2	0.00%	0.11%
Panamanian	21	0.01%	1.12%
Salvadorian	5	0.00%	0.27%
Other Central American	0	0.00%	0.00%
South American	102	0.03%	5.46%
Argentinian	16	0.00%	0.86%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	6	0.00%	0.32%
Columbian	31	0.01%	1.66%
Ecuadorian	10	0.00%	0.54%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.05%
Peruvian	17	0.00%	0.91%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	12	0.00%	0.64%
Other South American	6	0.00%	0.32%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	557	0.15%	29.80%
Spaniard	20	0.01%	1.07%
Spanish	102	0.03%	5.46%
Spanish American	11	0.00%	0.59%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	424	0.11%	22.69%

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

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