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)	1,108,094	97.58%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	27,520	2.42%	100.00%
Mexican	19,094	1.68%	69.38%
Puerto Rican	1,396	0.12%	5.07%
Cuban	861	0.08%	3.13%
Dominican	86	0.01%	0.31%
Central American	1,164	0.10%	4.23%
Costa Rican	67	0.01%	0.24%
Guatemalan	203	0.02%	0.74%
Honduran	384	0.03%	1.40%
Nicaraguan	62	0.01%	0.23%
Panamanian	154	0.01%	0.56%
Salvadorian	236	0.02%	0.86%
Other Central American	58	0.01%	0.21%
South American	741	0.07%	2.69%
Argentinian	59	0.01%	0.21%
Bolivian	38	0.00%	0.14%
Chilean	98	0.01%	0.36%
Columbian	240	0.02%	0.87%
Ecuadorian	37	0.00%	0.13%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	52	0.00%	0.19%
Uruguayan	16	0.00%	0.06%
Venezuelan	152	0.01%	0.55%
Other South American	42	0.00%	0.15%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,178	0.37%	15.18%
Spaniard	125	0.01%	0.45%
Spanish	506	0.04%	1.84%
Spanish American	60	0.01%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,487	0.31%	12.67%

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

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