Which Hispanics identify as white?

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