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)	1,580,071	93.52%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	109,501	6.48%	100.00%
Mexican	68,785	4.07%	62.82%
Puerto Rican	24,532	1.45%	22.40%
Cuban	1,193	0.07%	1.09%
Dominican	377	0.02%	0.34%
Central American	1,826	0.11%	1.67%
Costa Rican	230	0.01%	0.21%
Guatemalan	353	0.02%	0.32%
Honduran	227	0.01%	0.21%
Nicaraguan	441	0.03%	0.40%
Panamanian	152	0.01%	0.14%
Salvadorian	344	0.02%	0.31%
Other Central American	79	0.00%	0.07%
South American	1,598	0.09%	1.46%
Argentinian	144	0.01%	0.13%
Bolivian	56	0.00%	0.05%
Chilean	188	0.01%	0.17%
Columbian	556	0.03%	0.51%
Ecuadorian	97	0.01%	0.09%
Paraguayan	45	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	275	0.02%	0.25%
Uruguayan	10	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	149	0.01%	0.14%
Other South American	78	0.00%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	11,190	0.66%	10.22%
Spaniard	191	0.01%	0.17%
Spanish	1,208	0.07%	1.10%
Spanish American	90	0.01%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	9,701	0.57%	8.86%

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

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