about what percentage of californians are hispanic?
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In the 2000 Census, about 6.7 million.  But this defines the Bay Area as everything from San Francisco south to San Jose, north to include Marin, Napa & Sonoma, and the entire East Bay including Solano County.
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OK.\n\nListen.\n\nEven as we speak, I have read the reaction from the Hispanic community in Southern California.  Just as our Congress is debating how to deal with this, the ELECTED LEADERS down there are plotting how to defy AND BREAK OUR LAWS AGAIN and have stated that they would do anything from non-conformity to armed revolution if they don't get what they want above the wishes of the citizens of the entire United States.\n\nThey don't consider Southern California part of the United States, and I would imagine if they are doing it - so are other states with a large Hispanic population.  They build there power from the confidence of Mexico and the sucess of forcing two million people to move out of the state.\n\nTime and again I am told there is no discernable difference between Southern California and Mexico.\n\nEven Clinton told a group of Hispanics at one of their functions he thought he'd be the last President to speak English.\n\nYou do the math.
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Very little for California residents
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Except the Mexican/American war I think Hispanics and Anglos have gotten along very well in CA for many generations, I've lived here 36 years thus far.  I fear the unrest between Hispanic and African American youth (also gangs in the state etc...)  there seems to be much unrest and anger between the two groups.  It's been on the news here of late and many schools have taken zero tolerance stances to fights etc...  because of it. \n\nOne of the biggest issues in CA to these days is local cities allowing their police forces to pick up and enforce INS laws on local illegal immigrants.  It's a major flash point right now and I fear folks civil liberties will be violated because of it.  Watch for a Supreme court case in the coming years on this matter.  I'm sure it's in the works now.
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Hispanics constitute the largest minority group in the United States. As of July 1, 2004, Hispanics accounted for 14.1 % of the population, around 41.3 million people. Hispanic growth rate over the July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2004 period was of 3.6 % - higher than any other ethnic group in the United States, and in fact more than three times the rate of the nation's total population (at 1.0 %). The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050, is of 102.6 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24% of the nation’s total population on that date. [2]\n\nOf the nation's total Hispanic population, 49% lives in California or Texas. Not counting Puerto Rico — which is a territorial possession of the United States — New Mexico is the state with the highest proportion of Hispanics, where 43% is of Hispanic-origin. The proportion of Hispanics in the states of California and Texas exceed 35% each.\n\nThe Hispanic population of Los Angeles County, California--numbering over 4.6 million--is the largest of any county in the nation. [3] Meanwhile, for the 2000 to 2004 period, Lee County, Florida had the fastest growth rate in Hispanic population of any other county in the United States. [4]\n\nSome 64% of the nation's Hispanic population are of Mexican or Mexican-American background. Another approximately 10% are of Puerto Rican background, with about 3% each of Cuban, Salvadoran and Dominican origins. The remainder are of some other Central American, South American or other Hispanic or Latino origins. [5]\n\nThe overwhelming majority of Hispanics of Mexican/Mexican-American origin are concentrated in the Southwestern United States, primarily California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The majority of the Hispanic population in the Southeastern United States, concentrated in Florida, are of Cuban origin. The Hispanic population in the Northeastern United States, concentrated in New York and New Jersey, is composed mostly of Puerto Ricans, however, the Dominican population has risen considerably in the last decade, especially in proportion to that region's Hispanic population. The remainder of other Hispanics, composed of various Central American and South American origins, may be found throughout the country, though South Americans tend to concentrate on the East Coast of the United States (joining Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans) and Central Americans on the West Coast of the United States (joining Mexicans/Mexican Americans). There are few immigrants from Spain due to it's economical growth, they do not regard themselves with the term Hispan as used in the United States.
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Lack of Education - Possible. People might think Mexicans rule the Hispanic world!\n\nDescrimination - Again, possible. There are some pretty bad rumors out there about Mexicans.\n\nGeneralization - A lot of Hispanics I know are Mexican. Maybe they assumed most every Hispanic person is Mexican.
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I prefer Hispanic, because I am, as are many from the Caribbean, South America, Latin America, and some from North America, decendent from the Spanish.  Afterall, the Spanish went around all of these areas conquering all that they could.  Before Spain was called Spain, the area was called Hispania.  Hence the word, Hispanic.  \n\nAnd contrary to what one ignorant person answered, the US was discovered by Cristobal Colon, an Italian, funded by the Spanish with a boat full of Spaniards.  Therefore, the Spanish were here first. \n\nThis country is based on immmigrants, so don't even start with your foreigner crap.  We are all foreigners.   \n\nPlease see the following link:\nhttp://home.att.net/~alsosa/page2.htm
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I'm from California too, Orange County. I'm half Mexican. I don't feel comfortable with some white people because of comments I hear and their stereotypes about Mexicans. I look white so they talk to me in ways I know they wouldn't if they knew half my family is Mexican. Now at my work most people know so they don't say these things anymore. Now OC has so many more stereotypes with the tv show. The people here don't all look like the ones in that show. (Where are the Mexicans anyway? None are allowed in Newport after 7 pm. Only gardeners are allowed in the day time).  Another stereotype is that every Latino here is from Mexico and that El Salvador is IN Mexico. My students think it's the same place and so do the adults!!! My students also think that Santa Ana is dirty (if you watch Arrested Development, that's the city where the housekeeper's family lives). There are million dollar residences in Santa Ana though. I could go on and on :-P
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""About 10% of the Asian and Pacific-Islander population in the USA is undocumented, compared with 19% of the Latino population, he says."".\n\nWOW THE ABOVE QUOTE IS INTERESTING.  10% IS STILL A LARGE AMOUNT AND NOT MUCH SMALLER THAN THE ILLEGAL LATINO POPULATION.  BUT HEARING IT FROM THE BIGOTS LIKE PAT BUCHANAN AND YAHOO USERS, ALL ILLEGALS ARE LATINOS.
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I TOTALLY AGREE, I'M FROM CALIFORNIA, AND I HELP WITH PETITION SIGNING, AND I AM ASTOUNDED AS TO HOW MANY YOUNG PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE, I ALWAYS GET ANSWERS LIKE; OH I DON'T VOTE BECAUSE IT NEVER GOES THE WAY I WANT IT, OR ITS NOT LIKE MY VOTE MATTERS. AAH! STUPID! AND CONTRARY TO THE COMMENT ABOVE ABOUT LATINOS, MOST OF THE OFFENDERS ARE YOUNG AFFLUENT WHITE KIDS, MOSTLY GIRLS. I FIND THE LATINOS ARE MORE PASSIONATE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE TO LOSE.
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I think most folks are answering what "ethnicity" or "ancestry" hispanics are.  I was taught in school that humans categorized into 3 major "races" - caucasion, of African decent, and mongoloid - with subcategories beneath these.  The US census recognized subcategories that included:\nWhite (original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa)\nBlack, African American\nAmerican Indian or Alaska Native\nAsian: Indian / Chinese / Filipino / Japanese / Korean / Vietnamese \nPacific Islander: Native Hawaiian / Guamanian or Chamorro / Samoan \nOther \n\nWithin these, hispanics would technically be "White" since their ancenstry was from Europe or Native American since many of hispanic ethnicity have roots with the native peoples of Mexico and Central / South America.  \n\nInteresting that "latino" or "hispanic" is not included although the census got a lot of these responses in the "Other" category.\n\nIt's definately a hard one.
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It varies year to year depending on how many illegal immigrants they have to support each year.  Right now it's 8%.
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um...i know that southern california has a sh!tload of asians.  namely monterey park, alhambra, san gabriel, hacienda heights, rowland heights, diamond bar, walnut...\n\nUCI has been known to stand for University of Chinese Immigrants. That should give u a clue.
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I can tell you Mexican people are the biggest majority. Not being racist, just stating facts.
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I work with the Hispanic Community in Owings Mills, Baltimore City and Baltimore County and Annapolis. \n\nRegistered is like 200,000.  But, from our calculations, there are over 2 million hispanics in the state of Maryland.  \n\nWhy you interested?   lupylu@yahoo.com
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Absolutely not.  The closest he has come to being Hispanic is living in Texas.