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White Puerto Ricans. White Puerto Ricans (Spanish: puertorriqueños blancos) are Puerto Ricans who self-identify as white due to a rubric of laws like the Regla del Sacar or Gracias al Sacar dating back to the 1700's where a person of mixed ancestry could be considered legally white so long as they could prove that at least one person per ...
[9] [10] Non-hispanic people only made up 1.1% of the population of Puerto Rico, the majority of which are made up of U.S. citizens especially White Americans, and to a lesser degree Black Americans. [11] Some non-Puerto Rican Hispanics are U.S.-born. Ethnic Puerto Ricans numbered 3,139,035, representing 95.5% of Puerto Rico's population.
In the 2020 United States Census the total of Puerto Ricans that self-identified as White was 17.1% or 560,592 out of the 3,285,874 people living in Puerto Rico, [30] down from 75.8% in the 2010 Census, reflecting a change in perceptions of race in Puerto Rico.
In 2010, White Puerto Ricans are said to comprise the majority of the island's population, with 75.8% of the population identifying as white. [138] Though in the 2020 U.S. census, this percentage dropped to 17.1%. [ 17 ]
The total non-Latino white population shrunk between 2010 and 2020 in 34 out of the 50 states, and the relative share of non-Latino whites in the overall state population has declined in all 50 states during that same time period. As of 2020, six states are majority-minority: Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland.
The Royal census of Puerto Rico in 1834 established that the island's population as 42,000 enslaved Africans, 25,000 colored freemen, 189,000 people who identified themselves as whites and 101,000 who were described as being of mixed ethnicity." [4] A number of slave uprisings in plantations took place between 1820 and 1868.
Stateside Puerto Ricans [3] [4] (Spanish: Puertorriqueños en Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans (Spanish: puertorriqueño-americanos, [5] [6] puertorriqueño-estadounidenses), [7] [8] or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ...
A census conducted by royal decree on 30 September 1858, gave the following totals of the Puerto Rican population at that time: 341,015 were free colored; 300,430 were white; and 41,736 were slaves. [229] A census in 1887 found a population of around 800,000, of which 320,000 were black. [230] Population age pyramid of Puerto Rico in 2020.