I wanted to clarify a few issues with the Census’ American Community Survey. These data come from the interval of 2006-2008, and they allowed me to query the proportional of various Latino/Hispanic groups who identified as white. I knew in the aggregate that the majority of America’s Latinos identified as white, but I was curious about two things:
1) The variation in white identification by group (by national origin)
2) The variation in white identification of Mexican Americans by selected states
Results below. There are stories in these data….
| White | Black | Other race | White and black | White & Native American | |
| 300: Cuban | 87.3 | 3.5 | 8.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| 420: Argentinean | 86.3 | 0.3 | 13.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| 450: Spaniard | 80.5 | 1.3 | 15.5 | 0.6 | 2.1 |
| 427: Uruguayan | 79.3 | 0.1 | 20.3 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 422: Chilean | 77.3 | 0.6 | 21.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 428: Venezuelan | 77.1 | 2 | 19.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 |
| 423: Colombian | 69.7 | 1.7 | 27.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| 425: Paraguayan | 68.4 | 0.1 | 31.1 | 0 | 0.4 |
| 414: Nicaraguan | 68 | 2 | 29.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| 411: Costa Rican | 65.4 | 5.7 | 28.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| 421: Bolivian | 63.4 | 0.5 | 35.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| 100: Mexican | 59.4 | 0.6 | 39.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| 426: Peruvian | 58.3 | 0.6 | 40.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| 424: Ecuadorian | 55.5 | 0.8 | 43.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 413: Honduran | 53.8 | 4.2 | 41.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| 200: Puerto Rican | 53.1 | 6.1 | 39.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 |
| 412: Guatemalan | 49.3 | 1 | 48.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| 416: Salvadoran | 48.9 | 0.8 | 49.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| 415: Panamanian | 41.3 | 27.6 | 28.3 | 2.5 | 0.4 |
| 460: Dominican | 29.1 | 9.2 | 59.6 | 2 | 0.1 |
| Mexican Americans by state | |||||
| White | Black | Other race | White and black | White & Native American | |
| 63: Idaho | 74.7 | 0.2 | 23.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 |
| 66: New Mexico | 72.2 | 0.5 | 25.9 | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| 67: Utah | 71.7 | 0.8 | 26.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| 65: Nevada | 71.2 | 0.6 | 27.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| 68: Wyoming | 70.2 | 0.5 | 25.6 | 0.3 | 3.4 |
| 49: Texas | 68.6 | 0.4 | 30.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 62: Colorado | 68.4 | 0.6 | 30 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| 61: Arizona | 67 | 0.4 | 32 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 72: Oregon | 64 | 0.7 | 33.5 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
| 64: Montana | 59.5 | 4.8 | 31.7 | 0.2 | 3.9 |
| 71: California | 53.8 | 0.4 | 45.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 73: Washington | 51 | 0.6 | 47.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| 21: Illinois | 45.2 | 0.5 | 53.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| 12: New Jersey | 43.1 | 1.3 | 54.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| 13: New York | 41.3 | 2.1 | 55.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 |