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Hispanics and Latinos are the second-largest groups in Texas after non-Hispanic European Americans. More than 8.5 million people claim Hispanic or Latin American ethnicity. This group forms over 37 percent of Texas's population. People of Mexican descent alone number over 7.9 million, and made up 31.6 percent of the population. The vast ...
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The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...
Ethnic groups in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (1 C, 4 P) E. European American culture in Texas (18 C, 1 P) H. ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Texas"
When Spanish rule in Texas ended, Mexicans in Texas numbered 5,000. In 1850 over 14,000 Texas residents had Mexican origin. [1] [2] In 1911 an extremely bloody decade-long civil war broke out in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Texas, raising the Hispanic population from 72,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1920.
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Thousands attend the three-day event each year, which features food, crafts, music, and dances from ethnic groups that immigrated to Texas. A 2015 report by non-profit organization Mission: Readiness found that 73% of military-aged youth in Texas were physically ineligible for military service due to issues with obesity and ill-health, a rate ...
According to the 2000 U.S. census, 5,762 ethnic Chinese lived in Dallas County. [32] Plano, along with Houston, has one of the state's two major settlements of Chinese Americans. [33] As of 2011, 5% Plano's population is ethnic Chinese. [34] As of the 2000 U.S. census, of the foreign-born residents of Plano, 17% originated from China. [35]