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)	85,605	93.67%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,786	6.33%	100.00%
Mexican	4,047	4.43%	69.94%
Puerto Rican	61	0.07%	1.05%
Cuban	19	0.02%	0.33%
Dominican	11	0.01%	0.19%
Central American	439	0.48%	7.59%
Costa Rican	8	0.01%	0.14%
Guatemalan	163	0.18%	2.82%
Honduran	26	0.03%	0.45%
Nicaraguan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Panamanian	12	0.01%	0.21%
Salvadorian	211	0.23%	3.65%
Other Central American	18	0.02%	0.31%
South American	234	0.26%	4.04%
Argentinian	40	0.04%	0.69%
Bolivian	24	0.03%	0.41%
Chilean	48	0.05%	0.83%
Columbian	22	0.02%	0.38%
Ecuadorian	9	0.01%	0.16%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	50	0.05%	0.86%
Uruguayan	5	0.01%	0.09%
Venezuelan	30	0.03%	0.52%
Other South American	6	0.01%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	975	1.07%	16.85%
Spaniard	20	0.02%	0.35%
Spanish	117	0.13%	2.02%
Spanish American	29	0.03%	0.50%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	809	0.89%	13.98%

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

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