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)	197,238	98.06%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,892	1.94%	100.00%
Mexican	2,461	1.22%	63.23%
Puerto Rican	257	0.13%	6.60%
Cuban	91	0.05%	2.34%
Dominican	18	0.01%	0.46%
Central American	169	0.08%	4.34%
Costa Rican	14	0.01%	0.36%
Guatemalan	45	0.02%	1.16%
Honduran	32	0.02%	0.82%
Nicaraguan	13	0.01%	0.33%
Panamanian	25	0.01%	0.64%
Salvadorian	32	0.02%	0.82%
Other Central American	8	0.00%	0.21%
South American	266	0.13%	6.83%
Argentinian	20	0.01%	0.51%
Bolivian	8	0.00%	0.21%
Chilean	14	0.01%	0.36%
Columbian	119	0.06%	3.06%
Ecuadorian	28	0.01%	0.72%
Paraguayan	13	0.01%	0.33%
Peruvian	31	0.02%	0.80%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	26	0.01%	0.67%
Other South American	6	0.00%	0.15%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	630	0.31%	16.19%
Spaniard	19	0.01%	0.49%
Spanish	113	0.06%	2.90%
Spanish American	8	0.00%	0.21%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	490	0.24%	12.59%

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

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