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)	313,407	99.32%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,131	0.68%	100.00%
Mexican	781	0.25%	36.65%
Puerto Rican	216	0.07%	10.14%
Cuban	108	0.03%	5.07%
Dominican	18	0.01%	0.84%
Central American	55	0.02%	2.58%
Costa Rican	4	0.00%	0.19%
Guatemalan	14	0.00%	0.66%
Honduran	6	0.00%	0.28%
Nicaraguan	4	0.00%	0.19%
Panamanian	9	0.00%	0.42%
Salvadorian	14	0.00%	0.66%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.19%
South American	165	0.05%	7.74%
Argentinian	8	0.00%	0.38%
Bolivian	27	0.01%	1.27%
Chilean	8	0.00%	0.38%
Columbian	92	0.03%	4.32%
Ecuadorian	6	0.00%	0.28%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	7	0.00%	0.33%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.28%
Venezuelan	9	0.00%	0.42%
Other South American	2	0.00%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	788	0.25%	36.98%
Spaniard	22	0.01%	1.03%
Spanish	63	0.02%	2.96%
Spanish American	12	0.00%	0.56%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	691	0.22%	32.43%

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

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