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As a result of their racial diversity, Hispanics form an ethnicity sharing a language and cultural heritage, rather than a race. Hispanic origin is independent of race and is termed "ethnicity" by the United States Census Bureau. On the 2020 United States census, 20.3% of Hispanics selected "White" as their race.
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
A respondent who checks the "Hispanic or Latino" ethnicity box must also check one or more of the five official race categories. Of the over 35 million Hispanics or Latinos in the 2000 census, a plurality of 48.6% identified as "white," 48.2% identified as "Other" (most of whom are presumed of mixed races such as mestizo or mulatto), and the ...
“There is no Hispanic race. There is no Hispanic nation. There is no Hispanic DNA. So this is all a political construct, and that’s the reason I am against it.” Gonzalez described the ...
The terms Hispanic or Latino and Middle Eastern or North African will now be listed as a single race/ethnicity category in federal forms, reflecting the reality of how many Americans identify ...
The census uses two separate questions: one for Hispanic or Latino origin and another for race. This resulted in many Hispanic and Latino participants to have a “partial match” on the 2020 ...
The number of Hispanic Americans who identify as "Some Other Race" increased 41.7% from 2010 to 2020. [22] [23] [24] The 2030 census will include new options for identifying race and ethnicity, including a "Hispanic or Latino" box to reduce the number of people who choose the “some other race” category. [25]
[33] [34] Additionally, the Hispanic terms were modified from "Hispanic or Latino" to "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin". [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Although used in the census and the American Community Survey, "Some other race" is not an official race, [ 32 ] and the Bureau considered eliminating it prior to the 2000 census. [ 35 ]