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)	5,170,754	96.40%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	192,921	3.60%	100.00%
Mexican	126,719	2.36%	65.68%
Puerto Rican	30,267	0.56%	15.69%
Cuban	2,491	0.05%	1.29%
Dominican	612	0.01%	0.32%
Central American	4,020	0.07%	2.08%
Costa Rican	415	0.01%	0.22%
Guatemalan	801	0.01%	0.42%
Honduran	782	0.01%	0.41%
Nicaraguan	757	0.01%	0.39%
Panamanian	398	0.01%	0.21%
Salvadorian	671	0.01%	0.35%
Other Central American	196	0.00%	0.10%
South American	4,054	0.08%	2.10%
Argentinian	362	0.01%	0.19%
Bolivian	185	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	444	0.01%	0.23%
Columbian	1,323	0.02%	0.69%
Ecuadorian	282	0.01%	0.15%
Paraguayan	144	0.00%	0.07%
Peruvian	680	0.01%	0.35%
Uruguayan	66	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	376	0.01%	0.19%
Other South American	192	0.00%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	24,758	0.46%	12.83%
Spaniard	473	0.01%	0.25%
Spanish	2,953	0.06%	1.53%
Spanish American	225	0.00%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	21,107	0.39%	10.94%

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

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