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)	2,843,851	97.18%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	82,473	2.82%	100.00%
Mexican	61,154	2.09%	74.15%
Puerto Rican	2,690	0.09%	3.26%
Cuban	750	0.03%	0.91%
Dominican	155	0.01%	0.19%
Central American	3,984	0.14%	4.83%
Costa Rican	120	0.00%	0.15%
Guatemalan	1,298	0.04%	1.57%
Honduran	484	0.02%	0.59%
Nicaraguan	186	0.01%	0.23%
Panamanian	214	0.01%	0.26%
Salvadorian	1,470	0.05%	1.78%
Other Central American	212	0.01%	0.26%
South American	1,772	0.06%	2.15%
Argentinian	147	0.01%	0.18%
Bolivian	69	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	189	0.01%	0.23%
Columbian	454	0.02%	0.55%
Ecuadorian	329	0.01%	0.40%
Paraguayan	25	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	253	0.01%	0.31%
Uruguayan	25	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	208	0.01%	0.25%
Other South American	73	0.00%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	11,968	0.41%	14.51%
Spaniard	157	0.01%	0.19%
Spanish	1,413	0.05%	1.71%
Spanish American	133	0.00%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	10,265	0.35%	12.45%

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

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