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)	3,565,660	82.90%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	735,601	17.10%	100.00%
Mexican	450,760	10.48%	61.28%
Puerto Rican	12,993	0.30%	1.77%
Cuban	3,701	0.09%	0.50%
Dominican	573	0.01%	0.08%
Central American	9,587	0.22%	1.30%
Costa Rican	469	0.01%	0.06%
Guatemalan	2,362	0.05%	0.32%
Honduran	1,295	0.03%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	412	0.01%	0.06%
Panamanian	1,150	0.03%	0.16%
Salvadorian	3,358	0.08%	0.46%
Other Central American	541	0.01%	0.07%
South American	7,190	0.17%	0.98%
Argentinian	792	0.02%	0.11%
Bolivian	295	0.01%	0.04%
Chilean	740	0.02%	0.10%
Columbian	1,724	0.04%	0.23%
Ecuadorian	437	0.01%	0.06%
Paraguayan	51	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	1,962	0.05%	0.27%
Uruguayan	61	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	685	0.02%	0.09%
Other South American	443	0.01%	0.06%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	250,797	5.83%	34.09%
Spaniard	2,263	0.05%	0.31%
Spanish	53,591	1.25%	7.29%
Spanish American	10,125	0.24%	1.38%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	184,818	4.30%	25.12%

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

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