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)	1,115,361	93.89%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	72,580	6.11%	100.00%
Mexican	48,276	4.06%	66.51%
Puerto Rican	4,133	0.35%	5.69%
Cuban	1,426	0.12%	1.96%
Dominican	655	0.06%	0.90%
Central American	6,992	0.59%	9.63%
Costa Rican	156	0.01%	0.21%
Guatemalan	1,288	0.11%	1.77%
Honduran	2,372	0.20%	3.27%
Nicaraguan	181	0.02%	0.25%
Panamanian	321	0.03%	0.44%
Salvadorian	2,363	0.20%	3.26%
Other Central American	311	0.03%	0.43%
South American	2,958	0.25%	4.08%
Argentinian	299	0.03%	0.41%
Bolivian	100	0.01%	0.14%
Chilean	253	0.02%	0.35%
Columbian	968	0.08%	1.33%
Ecuadorian	239	0.02%	0.33%
Paraguayan	25	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	510	0.04%	0.70%
Uruguayan	33	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	398	0.03%	0.55%
Other South American	133	0.01%	0.18%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,140	0.69%	11.22%
Spaniard	237	0.02%	0.33%
Spanish	1,009	0.08%	1.39%
Spanish American	74	0.01%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,820	0.57%	9.40%

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

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