When did the first Hispanics show up in the U.S.A.?
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Nine months after Columbus landed. Hispanics are a mix between Spaniard and Indian.
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People are telling you that just because they're Hispanic doesn't make them illegal.  In fact the higher the Hispanic population the more illegals you are going to come across.
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Hispanic is a race just like Caucasians or African American.We do not like getting grouped with Americans cuz were Hispanic.
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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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Some of the reasons are for a better life, but migration began long before the 90's, and include Texas. Thier most valid reason (they say) is to claim the land they were forced from, do a little research on Google on Hispanic migration to the west
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This is actually a pretty touchy topic.\nMexican is what everyone else has mentioned...for Mexican nationals.  This does not include Mexican-American folks because they are actually American as in U.S.A.\nHispanic was the term used by the "white" man as in inclusive word for all central and south Americans...including Brazil.  Hispanic for "hispano" which was a word in the spanish language.  Hispano meaning from Spanish as in Spain descent.\nLatino was the word to sort of rebel from the Hispanic word because it was more pertaining to the central and south Americans.  Latino because those parts of the world many considered to be Latin America and their spanish is considerably different from the castilian spanish from Spain.\nIn order to answer your question, to whom are you referring?  If you know where the people or person is from, use their nationality term (peruvian, venezuelan, etc).  If you don't, use Hispanic or latino, they are used interchangably and most folks are used to both terms.  But I think most would prefer Latino.
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I am not sure where you read that.  I can see whites and Mongolians, but negroid?  Where did you read that?  Mexicans are a mix of native Indians and Spanish.  Mexico has had a lot of migration throughout the years.  Have you ever traveled there?  There are people from all over Europe, Jews, Chinese, Americans even Polish to name a few.
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Below are the results of the 2000 U.S. census which came from the provided link.\n\nMarch 13, 2001\n"The country's Hispanic population mushroomed by 58 percent from 1990 to 2000, making it the fastest growing minority group and underscoring 'the changing diversity of the United States,' the U.S. Census Bureau reported this week." \n\nThe 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census Bureau did not consider Latino/Hispanic to be a race.   The U.S. Census Bureau considers people of Hispanic background as "CAUCASIAN (WHITE) of hispanic ethnicity (culture)" (paraphrased).  In other words, "Hispanic/Latino" is not considered a race by the U.S. Census Bureau.\n\nYour question would be similar to someone living in the 1890's, during the time of German immigration, asking when the Germans would become a majority.\n\n11/18\nFYI. . .The U.S. Census Bureau counts ALL people (illegal and legal immigrants) in the census.  The individual answers on the census remain CONFIDENTIAL FOR 70 YEARS and there is no sharing of INDIVIDUAL answers with other governmental agencies during that 70 yr period.
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Some have become mayors, senators, made it to Congress and some have even become state governors. Some are very powerful lobbyists. At one time, the Surgeon General of the US was a Puerto Rican woman. As of right now, the US's Secretary of Justice and the Secretary of Commerce are both Hispanic men.\n\nSo yes, Hispanics have accomplished very much even with all the racist hurdles they find along the way.\n\nY yo estoy muy orgulloso de ser latino.
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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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Are you asking about indigenuous/Native Americans or those who came from other countries? \nBoth groups(at different times) initially started with gathering, hunting, fishing and later on, farming.
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Little known fact, all hispanics originally resided in present day Akron Ohio, but they all took off to mexico and central america on vacation, and that's right about the time the europeans moved in started squatting, and then claimed Akron for themselves.
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I. Discovery and First Settlement. 1609-1626.. Roosevelt, Theodore....\nTheodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). New York. 1906. I. Discovery and First Settlement. 1609-1626. ... century and a quarter Spain and Portugal had\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/171/1.html
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7414\nread the above and it should answer your questions\n\nhope this answers your question
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He is of hispanic heritage.
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The Spanish and Portuguese.
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Southern California, there are a lot of hispanic americans there.