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)	1,518,675	84.52%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	278,182	15.48%	100.00%
Mexican	216,178	12.03%	77.71%
Puerto Rican	7,240	0.40%	2.60%
Cuban	1,716	0.10%	0.62%
Dominican	211	0.01%	0.08%
Central American	6,283	0.35%	2.26%
Costa Rican	304	0.02%	0.11%
Guatemalan	1,092	0.06%	0.39%
Honduran	353	0.02%	0.13%
Nicaraguan	1,018	0.06%	0.37%
Panamanian	529	0.03%	0.19%
Salvadorian	2,428	0.14%	0.87%
Other Central American	559	0.03%	0.20%
South American	3,252	0.18%	1.17%
Argentinian	359	0.02%	0.13%
Bolivian	145	0.01%	0.05%
Chilean	471	0.03%	0.17%
Columbian	675	0.04%	0.24%
Ecuadorian	188	0.01%	0.07%
Paraguayan	20	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	852	0.05%	0.31%
Uruguayan	46	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	215	0.01%	0.08%
Other South American	281	0.02%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	43,302	2.41%	15.57%
Spaniard	1,189	0.07%	0.43%
Spanish	9,954	0.55%	3.58%
Spanish American	396	0.02%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	31,763	1.77%	11.42%

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

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