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)	7,670,350	95.29%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	378,963	4.71%	100.00%
Mexican	246,545	3.06%	65.06%
Puerto Rican	31,117	0.39%	8.21%
Cuban	7,389	0.09%	1.95%
Dominican	2,865	0.04%	0.76%
Central American	30,783	0.38%	8.12%
Costa Rican	2,624	0.03%	0.69%
Guatemalan	5,966	0.07%	1.57%
Honduran	8,321	0.10%	2.20%
Nicaraguan	1,449	0.02%	0.38%
Panamanian	2,773	0.03%	0.73%
Salvadorian	8,679	0.11%	2.29%
Other Central American	971	0.01%	0.26%
South American	12,958	0.16%	3.42%
Argentinian	904	0.01%	0.24%
Bolivian	332	0.00%	0.09%
Chilean	924	0.01%	0.24%
Columbian	4,985	0.06%	1.32%
Ecuadorian	1,874	0.02%	0.49%
Paraguayan	71	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	1,983	0.02%	0.52%
Uruguayan	133	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	1,223	0.02%	0.32%
Other South American	529	0.01%	0.14%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	47,306	0.59%	12.48%
Spaniard	854	0.01%	0.23%
Spanish	5,470	0.07%	1.44%
Spanish American	614	0.01%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	40,368	0.50%	10.65%

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

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