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)	2,068,585	91.32%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	196,638	8.68%	100.00%
Mexican	152,456	6.73%	77.53%
Puerto Rican	3,732	0.16%	1.90%
Cuban	2,688	0.12%	1.37%
Dominican	126	0.01%	0.06%
Central American	6,634	0.29%	3.37%
Costa Rican	363	0.02%	0.18%
Guatemalan	3,170	0.14%	1.61%
Honduran	503	0.02%	0.26%
Nicaraguan	323	0.01%	0.16%
Panamanian	338	0.01%	0.17%
Salvadorian	1,631	0.07%	0.83%
Other Central American	306	0.01%	0.16%
South American	3,077	0.14%	1.56%
Argentinian	350	0.02%	0.18%
Bolivian	104	0.00%	0.05%
Chilean	529	0.02%	0.27%
Columbian	675	0.03%	0.34%
Ecuadorian	228	0.01%	0.12%
Paraguayan	20	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	690	0.03%	0.35%
Uruguayan	50	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	240	0.01%	0.12%
Other South American	191	0.01%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	27,925	1.23%	14.20%
Spaniard	599	0.03%	0.30%
Spanish	4,571	0.20%	2.32%
Spanish American	299	0.01%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	22,456	0.99%	11.42%

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

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