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)	2,563,930	98.48%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	39,677	1.52%	100.00%
Mexican	22,324	0.86%	56.26%
Puerto Rican	3,360	0.13%	8.47%
Cuban	1,294	0.05%	3.26%
Dominican	180	0.01%	0.45%
Central American	1,537	0.06%	3.87%
Costa Rican	99	0.00%	0.25%
Guatemalan	418	0.02%	1.05%
Honduran	286	0.01%	0.72%
Nicaraguan	139	0.01%	0.35%
Panamanian	376	0.01%	0.95%
Salvadorian	149	0.01%	0.38%
Other Central American	70	0.00%	0.18%
South American	1,973	0.08%	4.97%
Argentinian	252	0.01%	0.64%
Bolivian	139	0.01%	0.35%
Chilean	196	0.01%	0.49%
Columbian	516	0.02%	1.30%
Ecuadorian	136	0.01%	0.34%
Paraguayan	18	0.00%	0.05%
Peruvian	432	0.02%	1.09%
Uruguayan	16	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	182	0.01%	0.46%
Other South American	86	0.00%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	9,009	0.35%	22.71%
Spaniard	298	0.01%	0.75%
Spanish	2,021	0.08%	5.09%
Spanish American	155	0.01%	0.39%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,535	0.25%	16.47%

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

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