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)	73,000	56.39%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	56,461	43.61%	100.00%
Mexican	49,943	38.58%	88.46%
Puerto Rican	376	0.29%	0.67%
Cuban	73	0.06%	0.13%
Dominican	13	0.01%	0.02%
Central American	221	0.17%	0.39%
Costa Rican	4	0.00%	0.01%
Guatemalan	38	0.03%	0.07%
Honduran	58	0.04%	0.10%
Nicaraguan	11	0.01%	0.02%
Panamanian	18	0.01%	0.03%
Salvadorian	68	0.05%	0.12%
Other Central American	24	0.02%	0.04%
South American	86	0.07%	0.15%
Argentinian	6	0.00%	0.01%
Bolivian	7	0.01%	0.01%
Chilean	21	0.02%	0.04%
Columbian	21	0.02%	0.04%
Ecuadorian	4	0.00%	0.01%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	21	0.02%	0.04%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	3	0.00%	0.01%
Other South American	3	0.00%	0.01%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,749	4.44%	10.18%
Spaniard	39	0.03%	0.07%
Spanish	563	0.43%	1.00%
Spanish American	29	0.02%	0.05%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,118	3.95%	9.06%

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

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