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White Hispanic and Latino Americans
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White Hispanic and Latino Americans are White Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin.
As the concepts of race and ethnicity — "ethnicity" is used as a synonym for Hispanic or Latino origin — are mutually independent in the Office of Management and Budget's and United States Census Bureau's definitions, every American is identified by both race and ethnicity. Hispanic or Latino people are those who report origins in Spain or Hispanic Latin America, and they may be of any race.
Thus each race, including White American, comprises individuals who are Hispanic or Latino and individuals who are not Hispanic or Latino.
he 2007 American Community Survey 24.4 million, or 51.9% of the then 45,427,437 total Hispanic and Latino Americans self-identified as white, an increase from 47.9% in the 2000 census.
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White Hispanic and Latino Americans are White Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin.
As the concepts of race and ethnicity — "ethnicity" is used as a synonym for Hispanic or Latino origin — are mutually independent in the Office of Management and Budget's and United States Census Bureau's definitions, every American is identified by both race and ethnicity. Hispanic or Latino people are those who report origins in Spain or Hispanic Latin America, and they may be of any race.
Thus each race, including White American, comprises individuals who are Hispanic or Latino and individuals who are not Hispanic or Latino.
Demographic information
In the 2007 American Community Survey 24.4 million, or 51.9% of the then 45,427,437 total Hispanic and Latino Americans self-identified as white, an increase from 47.9% in the 2000 census. Hispanics and Latinos who reported "Some other race" (meaning they do not identify with any of the standard racial categories given in the census) are the second largest group, at 41.2%, down from 42.2% in 2000. (The 2006 figures for racial categories chosen by Hispanics in the US Census other than "white" or "some other race" are: "Two or more races" or multiracials, 3.9%; Black, 1.4%; American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.8%; Asian, 0.35%; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 0.1%.) Respondents in the "Some other race" category are officially reclassified as white by the Census Bureau in some official estimates of race. This means that more than 90% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans end up being counted as "white" in some statistics of the US Census (which would equal 41 million in 2006).
Mexican Americans compose the majority (64%) of all Hispanic and Latino Americans, and similarly, White Mexican Americans compose the majority (59% in 2000) of all White Hispanic or Latino Americans. The second largest number of Hispanics identifying themselves as "white" are Puerto Rican Americans, and Cuban Americans are the third largest; these three U.S Hispanic groups by national origin compose the overwhelming majority of Hispanic and Latino Americans who self-identified as "white" in the 2000 US census.
| White Hispanics by National Origin, 2000 |
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Hispanic Origin Group | White Population | Percentage | Mexican | 9,870,433 | 47.3 | Puerto Rican | 1,605,049 | 47.2 | Cuban | 1,060,854 | 85.0 | Dominican | 180,856 | 22.7 | Central American | 735,879 | 40.4 | South American | 838,270 | 59.6 | "Spanish" and "Other Hispanic" | 2,534,786 | 44.8 |
Some Hispanic or Latino American groups, such as Mexican Americans and Chilean Americans, are predominantly white, in contrast to the actual ethnographic profiles of their countries of origin. For example, the racial make-up of the population of Mexico is 15% white, 60% mestizo (a mixture of European and indigenous peoples), and 25% indigenous; yet 47% of Mexican Americans identify themselves as white. (See the table.)
Some Hispanic countries, however, do have white majorities, these being Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
| White Hispanics by State, 2007 ACS |
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State | Population | % of State | % of Hispanics | California | 6,503,487 | 18 | ?? | Texas | 5,398,738 | 22.5 | ?? | Florida | 2,867,365 | 16 | ?? | New York | 1,161,663 | ?? | ?? | Arizona | 1,113,398 | 18 | ?? | Illinois | 715,315 | ?? | ?? | New Jersey | 660,649 | ?? | ?? | Colorado | 601,488 | 12.5 | ?? | New Mexico | 530,612 | ?? | ?? | Nevada | 412,985 | ?? | ?? |
Representation in the media
White Hispanics are overlooked to an extent by the English-language U.S. mass media, and by general American social perceptions, wherein being Hispanic or Latino is often incorrectly given a racial value, usually non-white.
Since the early days of the movie industry in the U.S., when White Hispanic actors are given roles, they are usually cast as non-Hispanic Whites. Examples include such actors as Jose Ferrer, Benicio Del Toro, Frankie Muniz, Andy Garcia, Joanna García, and Cameron Diaz. Most Americans who know of them may not be aware that American movie legend Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino) was Hispanic on her father's side, or that the actress who played "all-American" Gilmore Girl Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore — Alexis Bledel — is also Hispanic.
Others accuse the U.S. Hispanic media, as well as the Latin American media, of over-representing White Hispanics, while under-representing the non-White Hispanics, amid claims that telenovelas (soap operas), in particular, do not reflect the color spectrum of Hispanics and Latinos.
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