Tennessee

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)	5,565,445	97.82%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	123,838	2.18%	100.00%
Mexican	77,372	1.36%	62.48%
Puerto Rican	10,303	0.18%	8.32%
Cuban	3,695	0.06%	2.98%
Dominican	527	0.01%	0.43%
Central American	7,694	0.14%	6.21%
Costa Rican	417	0.01%	0.34%
Guatemalan	2,816	0.05%	2.27%
Honduran	1,448	0.03%	1.17%
Nicaraguan	278	0.00%	0.22%
Panamanian	863	0.02%	0.70%
Salvadorian	1,532	0.03%	1.24%
Other Central American	340	0.01%	0.27%
South American	3,469	0.06%	2.80%
Argentinian	261	0.00%	0.21%
Bolivian	132	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	329	0.01%	0.27%
Columbian	1,198	0.02%	0.97%
Ecuadorian	255	0.00%	0.21%
Paraguayan	29	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	458	0.01%	0.37%
Uruguayan	39	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	573	0.01%	0.46%
Other South American	195	0.00%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	20,778	0.37%	16.78%
Spaniard	405	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	2,587	0.05%	2.09%
Spanish American	278	0.00%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	17,508	0.31%	14.14%

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

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