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)	54,967	97.26%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,546	2.74%	100.00%
Mexican	431	0.76%	27.88%
Puerto Rican	380	0.67%	24.58%
Cuban	223	0.39%	14.42%
Dominican	10	0.02%	0.65%
Central American	62	0.11%	4.01%
Costa Rican	4	0.01%	0.26%
Guatemalan	17	0.03%	1.10%
Honduran	4	0.01%	0.26%
Nicaraguan	13	0.02%	0.84%
Panamanian	7	0.01%	0.45%
Salvadorian	15	0.03%	0.97%
Other Central American	2	0.00%	0.13%
South American	118	0.21%	7.63%
Argentinian	5	0.01%	0.32%
Bolivian	7	0.01%	0.45%
Chilean	2	0.00%	0.13%
Columbian	35	0.06%	2.26%
Ecuadorian	11	0.02%	0.71%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	40	0.07%	2.59%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	17	0.03%	1.10%
Other South American	1	0.00%	0.06%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	322	0.57%	20.83%
Spaniard	9	0.02%	0.58%
Spanish	52	0.09%	3.36%
Spanish American	11	0.02%	0.71%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	250	0.44%	16.17%

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

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