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)	153,698	98.04%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,065	1.96%	100.00%
Mexican	2,135	1.36%	69.66%
Puerto Rican	161	0.10%	5.25%
Cuban	38	0.02%	1.24%
Dominican	1	0.00%	0.03%
Central American	66	0.04%	2.15%
Costa Rican	7	0.00%	0.23%
Guatemalan	12	0.01%	0.39%
Honduran	7	0.00%	0.23%
Nicaraguan	8	0.01%	0.26%
Panamanian	15	0.01%	0.49%
Salvadorian	14	0.01%	0.46%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.10%
South American	85	0.05%	2.77%
Argentinian	10	0.01%	0.33%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	20	0.01%	0.65%
Columbian	11	0.01%	0.36%
Ecuadorian	8	0.01%	0.26%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	14	0.01%	0.46%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.13%
Venezuelan	13	0.01%	0.42%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.13%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	579	0.37%	18.89%
Spaniard	18	0.01%	0.59%
Spanish	61	0.04%	1.99%
Spanish American	5	0.00%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	495	0.32%	16.15%

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

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