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)	152,150	64.16%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	84,982	35.84%	100.00%
Mexican	64,959	27.39%	76.44%
Puerto Rican	194	0.08%	0.23%
Cuban	69	0.03%	0.08%
Dominican	21	0.01%	0.02%
Central American	131	0.06%	0.15%
Costa Rican	4	0.00%	0.00%
Guatemalan	19	0.01%	0.02%
Honduran	8	0.00%	0.01%
Nicaraguan	21	0.01%	0.02%
Panamanian	22	0.01%	0.03%
Salvadorian	54	0.02%	0.06%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.00%
South American	137	0.06%	0.16%
Argentinian	23	0.01%	0.03%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	5	0.00%	0.01%
Columbian	32	0.01%	0.04%
Ecuadorian	12	0.01%	0.01%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	38	0.02%	0.04%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	19	0.01%	0.02%
Other South American	3	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	19,471	8.21%	22.91%
Spaniard	59	0.02%	0.07%
Spanish	885	0.37%	1.04%
Spanish American	57	0.02%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	18,470	7.79%	21.73%

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

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