Is there any data on what percent of American Hispanics are White?

submitted by 8thmonitor from (self.AskSaidIt)

While most are products of race mixing between European Spaniards and indigenous people, aren't some Hispanics fully Spaniard? Don't they still count as white and add onto the current 56% white figure in America?

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Don't they still count as white and add onto the current 56% white figure in America?

No. This is a cultural label, not one indicating genetic ancestry. A black latino and a white latino are both counted as hispanic/latino

"OMB defines "Hispanic or Latino" as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

A white soccer player like Lionel Messi would be a hispanic, because he is culturally South American

https://www.census.gov/topics/population/hispanic-origin/about.html

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As you say, race and ethnicity (Hispanic or non-Hispanic are the only entries in America) are collected as two different categories of data.

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Mexicans are proof that Indians fucked Buffalo.

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You can get that percentage yourself (using this data like so:

( (% Hispanics) - (% "white alone" Hispanics) ) / (% Hispanics)

"White alone" Hispanics are included in the percentage of whites.

Hispanics are not only from Spain or descended from people from Spain; "Hispanic" includes any country that speaks Spanish. So a white person from Spain checks the "white" box only under the race section, is considered "white alone" and added to the white percentage, and then checks "Hispanic" under ethnicity and is added to the Hispanic percentage as well. White and non-white Hispanics are sub-categories of "Hispanic" and those numbers can be found on the internet. You can also find the numbers for non-Hispanic whites.