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Basques have been living in Northern Nevada for over a century and form a population of several thousand. Basque immigrants first came in the mid-1800s during the Gold rush. The Basques have also been closely-tied to sheep herding in Nevada and neighboring states. The Basque-American culture is especially prominent in the town of Winnemucca.
Population of Basques by state. Basque immigration peaked after the Spanish Carlist Wars in the 1830s—Ebro customs relocated to the Pyrenees—and in the 1860s following the discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. The current day descendants of Basque immigrants remain most notably in this area ...
Hispanics of any race made 26.5% of the population. [12] In 1970, non-Hispanic whites made up 88% of the state's population. [13] The principal ancestry of Nevada's residents in 2009 has been surveyed to be the following: [14] 20.8% Mexican; Nevada also has a sizable Basque ancestry population.
Racial / Ethnic Profile of the United States by State and Territory (2020 Census) (NH = Non-Hispanic) [1] State Total Population White alone (NH) % Black or African American alone (NH) % Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) % Asian alone (NH) % Pacific Islander alone (NH) % Some Other Race alone (NH) % Mixed Race or Multi-Racial (NH ...
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
As of 2010, Hispanic and Latinos were the fastest growing population demographic in the United States. As of 2020, Hispanics and Latinos make up 18.7% of the total U.S. population (approximately 62 million out of a total of around 330 million). The state with the largest percentage of Hispanics and Latinos is New Mexico at 47.7%.
The Basque History of the World, Mark Kurlansky, 1999, ISBN 0-8027-1349-1. The Oldest Europeans, J. F. del Giorgio, A. J. Place, 2006, ISBN 980-6898-00-1. Ethnologue report for France for population statistics in France. Euskal Herria en la Prehistoria, Xabier Peñalver Iribarren, 1996, ISBN 84-89077-58-4.
The Basque diaspora is the name given to describe people of Basque origin living outside their traditional homeland on the borders between Spain and France. Many Basques have left the Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economic and political reasons, with a substantial population in Chile and Colombia. [1] [2] [3]