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)	149,795	98.90%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,669	1.10%	100.00%
Mexican	759	0.50%	45.48%
Puerto Rican	200	0.13%	11.98%
Cuban	63	0.04%	3.77%
Dominican	11	0.01%	0.66%
Central American	128	0.08%	7.67%
Costa Rican	8	0.01%	0.48%
Guatemalan	79	0.05%	4.73%
Honduran	10	0.01%	0.60%
Nicaraguan	4	0.00%	0.24%
Panamanian	13	0.01%	0.78%
Salvadorian	9	0.01%	0.54%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.30%
South American	97	0.06%	5.81%
Argentinian	7	0.00%	0.42%
Bolivian	11	0.01%	0.66%
Chilean	6	0.00%	0.36%
Columbian	23	0.02%	1.38%
Ecuadorian	17	0.01%	1.02%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	10	0.01%	0.60%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	20	0.01%	1.20%
Other South American	2	0.00%	0.12%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	411	0.27%	24.63%
Spaniard	14	0.01%	0.84%
Spanish	55	0.04%	3.30%
Spanish American	7	0.00%	0.42%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	335	0.22%	20.07%

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

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