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)	433,586	92.21%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	36,626	7.79%	100.00%
Mexican	3,489	0.74%	9.53%
Puerto Rican	7,930	1.69%	21.65%
Cuban	1,687	0.36%	4.61%
Dominican	784	0.17%	2.14%
Central American	3,238	0.69%	8.84%
Costa Rican	622	0.13%	1.70%
Guatemalan	659	0.14%	1.80%
Honduran	1,161	0.25%	3.17%
Nicaraguan	40	0.01%	0.11%
Panamanian	52	0.01%	0.14%
Salvadorian	487	0.10%	1.33%
Other Central American	217	0.05%	0.59%
South American	10,946	2.33%	29.89%
Argentinian	341	0.07%	0.93%
Bolivian	35	0.01%	0.10%
Chilean	646	0.14%	1.76%
Columbian	6,586	1.40%	17.98%
Ecuadorian	1,476	0.31%	4.03%
Paraguayan	83	0.02%	0.23%
Peruvian	879	0.19%	2.40%
Uruguayan	405	0.09%	1.11%
Venezuelan	160	0.03%	0.44%
Other South American	335	0.07%	0.91%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,552	1.82%	23.35%
Spaniard	465	0.10%	1.27%
Spanish	1,169	0.25%	3.19%
Spanish American	138	0.03%	0.38%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,780	1.44%	18.51%

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

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