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)	98,075	97.86%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,149	2.14%	100.00%
Mexican	365	0.36%	16.98%
Puerto Rican	1,231	1.23%	57.28%
Cuban	61	0.06%	2.84%
Dominican	51	0.05%	2.37%
Central American	73	0.07%	3.40%
Costa Rican	6	0.01%	0.28%
Guatemalan	20	0.02%	0.93%
Honduran	24	0.02%	1.12%
Nicaraguan	3	0.00%	0.14%
Panamanian	6	0.01%	0.28%
Salvadorian	6	0.01%	0.28%
Other Central American	8	0.01%	0.37%
South American	80	0.08%	3.72%
Argentinian	12	0.01%	0.56%
Bolivian	3	0.00%	0.14%
Chilean	4	0.00%	0.19%
Columbian	27	0.03%	1.26%
Ecuadorian	9	0.01%	0.42%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	17	0.02%	0.79%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	2	0.00%	0.09%
Other South American	5	0.00%	0.23%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	288	0.29%	13.40%
Spaniard	9	0.01%	0.42%
Spanish	62	0.06%	2.89%
Spanish American	10	0.01%	0.47%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	207	0.21%	9.63%

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

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