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)	985,812	63.79%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	559,575	36.21%	100.00%
Mexican	463,465	29.99%	82.82%
Puerto Rican	7,388	0.48%	1.32%
Cuban	3,228	0.21%	0.58%
Dominican	152	0.01%	0.03%
Central American	11,895	0.77%	2.13%
Costa Rican	581	0.04%	0.10%
Guatemalan	3,727	0.24%	0.67%
Honduran	594	0.04%	0.11%
Nicaraguan	1,057	0.07%	0.19%
Panamanian	555	0.04%	0.10%
Salvadorian	4,411	0.29%	0.79%
Other Central American	970	0.06%	0.17%
South American	5,183	0.34%	0.93%
Argentinian	831	0.05%	0.15%
Bolivian	224	0.01%	0.04%
Chilean	401	0.03%	0.07%
Columbian	1,202	0.08%	0.21%
Ecuadorian	631	0.04%	0.11%
Paraguayan	14	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	1,219	0.08%	0.22%
Uruguayan	74	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	197	0.01%	0.04%
Other South American	390	0.03%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	68,264	4.42%	12.20%
Spaniard	768	0.05%	0.14%
Spanish	6,871	0.44%	1.23%
Spanish American	407	0.03%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	60,218	3.90%	10.76%

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

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