White Hispanic and Latino Americans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (26,735,713 8.7% of total U.S. population, 2010 11.9% of total White American population, 2010 53.0% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2010) |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
| All areas of the United States | |
 California
|
6,503,487 |
 Texas
|
5,398,738 |
 Florida
|
2,867,365 |
| Languages | |
| American English • American Spanish • Spanglish • Nuyorican English | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christianity (mostly Roman Catholic, sizeable Protestant) Minority Judaism and others. |
|
| Related ethnic groups | |
| White Latin Americans, White Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans | |
In the United States, a white Hispanic is an American citizen or resident who is racially white and of Hispanic descent. The term white, itself an official U.S. racial category, refers to people "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa".
Based on the definitions created by the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Census Bureau, the concepts of race and ethnicity are mutually independent, and respondents to the census and other Census Bureau surveys are asked to answer both questions. Hispanicity is independent and thus not the same as race, and constitutes an ethnicity category, as opposed to a racial category, the only one of which that is officially collated by the U.S. Census Bureau. For the Census Bureau, ethnicity distinguishes between those who report ancestral origins in Spain or Hispanic America (Hispanic and Latino Americans), and those who do not (non-Hispanic Americans). The U.S. Census Bureau asks each resident to report the "race or races with which they most closely identify."
White Americans are therefore referenced as white Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, the former consisting of white Americans who report Hispanophone identity (Spanish Hispanic Latin America), and the latter consisting of white Americans who do not report Hispanophone ancestry
As of 2010, 50.5 million or 16.3% of Americans identified as Hispanic or Latino. Of those, 26.7 million, or 53%, also identified as white.
A small minority of White Hispanics in the United States of America today is descended from original Spanish colonists who settled the so-called "internal provinces" and Louisiana of New Spain. As the United States expanded westward, it annexed lands with a long-established population of Spanish-speaking settlers, who were overwhelmingly or exclusively of white Spanish ancestry (cf. White Mexican). This group became known as Hispanos. Prior to incorporation into the United States of America (and briefly, into Independent Texas), Hispanos had enjoyed a privileged status in the society of New Spain and later in post-colonial Mexico.
...
Wikipedia