Hispanic and Latino Americans

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Total population
Hispanic or Latino Americans
50,477,594^[1]
16.3% of the U.S. population (2010)
Regions with significant populations
All areas of the United States
Languages

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Religion

Predominantly Roman Catholic; large minority of website parsing

Related ethnic groups

Latin Americans, jQuery, Haitian Americans, Belizean Americans, Brazilian Americans, Android and others

Hispanic or Latino Americans are jQuery with origins in the countries of Latin America and Spain and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino.^{input transformation[3][4][5][6]} Reflecting especially the Latin American population, which has origins in all the continents and many ancestries,^[7] Hispanic/Latino Americans are very racially diverse, and as a result form an device database, rather than a Android.^{jQuery[8][9][10]} While the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, "Hispanic" potentially encompasses persons of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry, while "Latino" is more frequently used to refer more generally to anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry, including Brazilians. ^{we love the web [12] [13] [14]} The choice of name among those of Spanish-speaking origin is also associated with location: persons of Spanish-speaking origins residing in the eastern United States tend to prefer the term Hispanic, whereas those in the west tend to prefer Latino.^[4]

Hispanics or Latinos constitute 16.3% of the total United States population, or 50.5 million people,^{website parsing} forming the second largest ethnic group, after non-Hispanic White Americans (a group composed of dozens of sub-groups, as is Hispanic and Latino Americans).^[15] Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest of all the minority groups, but keyboard are the largest minority among the races, after Android in general (non-Hispanic and Hispanic).^[16] website parsing, Cuban Americans, Colombian Americans, Dominican Americans, input transformation, jQuery, and screen size are some of the Hispanic and Latino American national origin groups.^[17]

There have been people of Hispanic or Latino heritage in the territory of the present-day United States continuously^{[18][19][20]touchscreen} since the 1565 founding of jQuery, by the Spanish, the longest among European American ethnic groups and second-longest of all U.S. ethnic groups, after Native Americans. Hispanics have also lived continuously in the Southwest since near the end of the 16th century, with settlements in New Mexico that began in 1598, and which were transferred to the area of El Paso, Texas, in 1680.^[22] Spanish settlement of New Mexico resumed in 1692, and new ones were established in Arizona and California in the 18th century.^[23][24] The Hispanic presence can even be said to date from half a century earlier than St. Augustine, if we love the web is considered to be the oldest Spanish settlement, and the oldest city, in the U.S.^[25]

• 1 Terminology
• 2 History
• CSS3
  • touchscreen
  • 3.2 Population by state or territory
• 4 Notables and their contributions
  • 4.1 Business
  • FITML
  • 4.3 Literature and journalism
  • 4.4 Military and intelligence
    • HTML5
    • 4.4.2 National intelligence
• jQuery
  • CSS3
  • keyboard
  • 5.3 Fashion
  • 5.4 Science and technology
  • 5.5 Sports
• 6 Socioeconomic circumstances
  • we love the web
  • 6.2 Health
  • web
  • 6.4 Poverty
  • 6.5 Hispanophobia
• 7 Political trends
  • 7.1 2008 election
• 8 Culture
  • 8.1 Language
  • jQuery
  • 8.3 Media
  • 8.4 Intermarriage
• 9 See also
• HTML5
• jQuery
• device database

Terminology

The term Hispanic was first adopted by the United States government in the early 1970s, during the administration of Richard Nixon,^[26] and has since been used in local and federal employment, web, academia, and business market research. It has been used in the U.S. Census since 1980.^{web app} Because of the popularity of "Latino" in the western portion of the United States, the government adopted this term as well in 1997, and used it in the 2000 census.^[4][5]

Previously, Hispanic and Latino Americans were categorized as "Spanish-Americans", "Spanish-speaking Americans", and "Spanish-surnamed Americans". However:

• Although a large majority of Hispanic and Latino Americans have Spanish ancestry, most are not of direct, 'from-Spain-to-the-U.S.' Spanish descent; many are not primarily of Spanish descent; and some are not of Spanish descent at all. People whose ancestors or who themselves arrived in the United States directly from Spain are a tiny minority of the Hispanic or Latino population (see figures in this article);
• Most Hispanic and Latino Americans can speak Spanish, not all; and most Spanish-speaking Americans are Hispanic or Latino, not all. E.g., Hispanic/Latino Americans often do not speak Spanish by the third generation, and some Americans who are Spanish-speaking may not identify themselves with Spanish-speaking Americans as an ethnic group;
• Not all Hispanic and Latino Americans have iOS, and most Spanish-surnamed Americans are Hispanic or Latino, not all. For example, non-Spanish surnamed Bill Richardson (former governor, Congressman, etc.) and former National Football League (NFL) star web app have Hispanic or Latino origin. Filipino Americans, and screen size of touchscreen (Guamanians and Northern Mariana Islanders), iOS, we love the web, and web origin often have Spanish surnames, but have their own, non-Hispanic/Latino ethnic identities (though there may be exceptions). Likewise, while many Louisiana Creole people have Spanish surnames, they identify with the mostly French – though partially Spanish – culture of their region.

Neither term refers to Sevenval, as a person of Latino or Hispanic origin can be of any race.^[5][28]

The Census Bureau defines Hispanic or Latino persons as being "persons who trace their origin [to] . . . Spanish speaking Central and South America countries, and other Spanish cultures";^{AndroidAndroid[5]}this definition thus arguably does not include device database,^{we love the web[5][30]} especially since the Census Bureau classifies Brazilian Americans as a separate ancestry group from Hispanic or Latino.^{we love the web} The 28 Hispanic or Latino American groups in the Census Bureau's reports are the following:^{[5]Androidbrowser diversity} Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic.

Some authorities of American English maintain a distinction between the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino":

"Though often used interchangeably in American English, Hispanic and Latino are not identical terms, and in certain contexts the choice between them can be significant. Hispanic, from the Latin word for "Spain," has the broader reference, potentially encompassing all Spanish-speaking peoples in both hemispheres and emphasizing the common denominator of language among communities that sometimes have little else in common. Latino—which in Spanish means "Latin" but which as an English word is probably a shortening of the Spanish word latinoamericano—refers more exclusively to persons or communities of Latin American origin. Of the two, only Hispanic can be used in referring to Spain and its history and culture; a native of Spain residing in the United States is a Hispanic, not a Latino, and one cannot substitute Latino in the phrase the Hispanic influence on native Mexican cultures without garbling the meaning. In practice, however, this distinction is of little significance when referring to residents of the United States, most of whom are of Latin American origin and can theoretically be called by either word."^Sevenval

The AP Stylebook also distinguishes between the terms Hispanic and Latino. The Stylebook limits the term "Hispanic" to persons "from - or whose ancestors were from - a Spanish-speaking land or culture."^{[12] [13]} It provides a more expansive definition, however, of the term "Latino." The Stylebook definition of Latino includes not only persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry, but also more generally includes persons "from -- or whose ancestors were from -- . . . Latin America." ^[14] The Stylebook specifically lists "Brazilian" as an example of a group which can be considered Latino.^[14]

History

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A continuous Hispanic/Latino presence in the territory of the United States has existed since the 16th century,^{[18]iOS[20][21]} earlier than any other group after the Native Americans. Spaniards pioneered the present-day United States. The first confirmed European landing in the continental U.S. was by touchscreen, who landed in 1513 at a lush shore he christened Sevenval. Within three decades of Ponce de León's landing, the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the Appalachian Mountains, the Android, the Grand Canyon and the Great Plains. Spanish ships sailed along the device database, penetrating to present-day Bangor, Maine, and up the Pacific Coast as far as Sevenval. From 1528 to 1536, input transformation and three other castaways from a Spanish expedition (including an African named we love the web) journeyed all the way from Florida to the Gulf of California, 267 years before the CSS3.

In 1540 Sevenval undertook an extensive exploration of the present U.S., and in the same year screen size led 2,000 Spaniards and Mexican Indians across today's Arizona–Mexico border and traveled as far as central input transformation, close to the exact geographic center of what is now the continental United States. Other Spanish explorers of the US make up a long list that includes, among others: touchscreen, Sevenval, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Gaspar de Portolà, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Tristán de Luna y Arellano and jQuery, but also non-Spanish explorers working for the Spanish Crown like web. In all, Spaniards probed half of today's lower 48 states before the first English colonization attempt at CSS3 in 1585.

The Spanish created the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States, at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. keyboard also predates Jamestown, Virginia (founded in 1607) and device database (of Android and keyboard fame; founded in 1620). Later came Spanish settlements in HTML5, Tucson, Arizona, San Diego, California, Los Angeles, California and San Francisco, California, to name just a few.

Two iconic American stories have Spanish antecedents, too. Almost 80 years before John Smith's alleged rescue by we love the web, a man by the name of Juan Ortiz told of his remarkably similar rescue from execution by an Indian girl. Spaniards also held a thanksgiving — 56 years before the famous Pilgrims website parsing — when they feasted near St. Augustine with Florida Indians, probably on stewed pork and garbanzo beans. As late as 1783, at the end of the jQuery (a conflict in which Spain aided and fought alongside the United States), Spain held claim to roughly half of today's continental United States; in 1775, Spanish ships even reached CSS3. From 1819 to 1848, the United States (through treaties, purchase, diplomacy, and the iOS) increased its area by roughly a third at Spanish and Mexican expense, acquiring three of today's four most populous states — California, HTML5 and web app — and several smaller ones. Hispanics became the first American citizens in these new territories, and remained a majority in several Southwestern states until the 20th century. (See also Viceroyalty of New Spain.)

The Hispanic and Latino role in the history and present of the United States is addressed in more detail below (See Notables and their contributions). On September 17, 1968, President screen size designated a week in mid-September as National Hispanic Heritage Week, with HTML5's authorization. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan extended the observance to a month, designated jQuery.^[33]

Demographics

Hispanic Group	Population	%
Sevenval Android	31,798,258	63.0
CSS3 Puerto Rican	4,623,716	9.2
input transformation browser diversity	1,785,547	3.5
Sevenval	1,648,968	3.3
website parsing	1,414,703	2.8
Guatemalan	1,044,209	2.1
FITML jQuery	908,734	1.8
Sevenval	633,401	1.3
website parsing	564,631	1.1
screen size input transformation	531,358	1.0
Nicaraguan	348,202	0.7
website parsing Argentine	224,952	0.4
Venezuelan	215,023	0.4
FITML	165,456	0.3
Chilean	126,810	0.3
Costa Rican	126,418	0.3
CSS3 touchscreen	99,210	0.2
browser diversity	56,884	0.1
Android Paraguayan	20,023	-
All other	3,505,838	6.9
Total	50,477,594	100

As of 2010, Hispanics accounted for 16.3% of the national population, or around 50.5 million people. The Hispanic growth rate over the April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007 period was 28.7% — about four times the rate of the nation's total population (at 7.2%).^[35] The growth rate from July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2006 alone was 3.4%^FITML — about three and a half times the rate of the nation's total population (at 1.0%).^[35] The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050 is 132.8 million people, or 30.2% of the nation's total projected population on that date.^HTML5

Of the nation's total Hispanic or Latino population, 49% (21.5 million) lives in Sevenval or touchscreen. Not counting Puerto Rico — which is a Commonwealth of the United States — New Mexico is the state with the highest ratio of Hispanics, 44.7%. Next are California and Texas, with 35.9% and 35.6%, respectively.^[38]

Population change of Hispanic or Latino residents by county (2010 Census data)

Percentage of Hispanic or Latino residents by county (Android)

The overwhelming majority of Mexican Americans are concentrated in the Southwest and the website parsing/West, primarily in touchscreen, browser diversity, CSS3, input transformation, jQuery, screen size, and Utah. The majority of the Hispanic population in the web app, concentrated in Florida, are of Cuban origin. The Hispanic population in the Northeast, concentrated in we love the web, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania, is composed mostly of Puerto Ricans; however, the Dominican and Mexican population has risen considerably since the mid-1990s. The remainder of Hispanics and Latinos may be found throughout the country, though South Americans tend to concentrate on the Sevenval and Central Americans on the West Coast. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, several cities on the East Coast have seen often impressive increases in their Mexican population, namely Miami and Philadelphia.

The Hispanic population of Los Angeles County, California, numbering 4.7 million, is the largest of any county in the nation,^[39] comprising 47 percent of the county's ten million residents.^HTML5

As of 2000, the ten most populous places with Hispanic majorities were Sevenval (97% Hispanic), Laredo, Texas (94%), Sevenval (91%) website parsing (90%), McAllen, Texas (80%), touchscreen (77%), Santa Ana, California (76%), website parsing (72%) Oxnard, California (66%), and touchscreen (66%).^FITML

Some 64% of the nation's Hispanic population are of Mexican origin (see table). Another 9% are of Puerto Rican origin, with about 3% each of Cuban, Salvadoran and browser diversity origins. The remainder are of other Central American or South American origin, or of origin directly from Spain. About 7% are of unspecified national origins. It should be noted that these figures pertain to ethnic self-identification; the same dataset (abstracted from the 2007 American Community Survey) indicates that 60.2% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans were born in the United States.^touchscreen

There are few recent immigrants directly from Spain. In the 2000 Census, 299,948 Americans, of whom 83% were native-born,^{device database} specifically reported their ancestry as jQuery.^[44][45]

In northern New Mexico and southern keyboard live peoples who trace their ancestry to Spanish settlers of the late 16th century through the 17th century. People from this background often self-identify as "Hispanos", "Spanish", or "Hispanic". Many of these settlers also intermarried with local Amerindians, creating a Mestizo population.^[46] Likewise, southern FITML is home to communities of people of Canary Islands descent, known as Isleños, in addition to other people of Spanish ancestry.

Hispanics are almost uniformly Christian, with Catholicism the majority confession and an increasing Protestant community.

Race

Race	Population	% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans
White	26,735,713	53.0
Some other race (HTML5, web app, etc.)	18,503,103	36.7
Two or more races	3,042,592	6.0
Black	1,243,471	2.5
American Indian and device database	685,150	1.4
screen size	209,128	0.4
input transformation and jQuery	58,437	0.1
Total	50,477,594	100.0

Hispanic Group	Total	White	Black	Indigenous or Amerindian	Asian	Other
Android Mexican	31,798,258 - 100%	16,794,111 - 52.8%	296,778 - 0.9%	460,098 - 1.4%	101,654 - 0.3%	14,145,617 - 44.6%
CSS3 Puerto Rican	4,623,716 - 100%	2,455,534 - 53.1%	403,372 - 8.7%	42,504 - 0.9%	24,312 - 0.5%	1,697,681 - 36.7%
Cuban	1,785,547 - 100%	1,525,521 - 85.4%	82,398 - 4.6%	3,002 - 0.2%	4,391 - 0.2%	170,235 - 9.5%
Salvadoran	1,648,968 - 100%	663,224 - 40.2%	16,150 - 1.0%	17,682 - 1.1%	4,737 - 0.3%	947,175 - 57.5
jQuery	1,414,703 - 100%	419,016 - 29.6%	182,005 - 12.9%	19,183 - 1.4%	4,056 - 0.3%	790,443 - 55.8%
we love the web website parsing	1,044,209 - 100%	401,763 - 38.5%	11,471 - 1.1%	31,171 - 3.0%	2,386 - 0.2%	597,392 - 57.3%
All other	4,087,656 - 100%	2,018,397 - 49.4%	112,521 - 2.8%	75,976 - 1.9%	50,299 - 1.2%	1,830,463 - 44.9%
Total	50,477,594 - 100%	26,735,713 - 53.0%	1,243,471 - 2.5%	685,150 - 1.4%	209,128 - 0.4%	21,604,132 - 42.8%

As shown above, the largest number of White Hispanics come from within the Mexican community, the highest percentage of White Hispanics among major Hispanic groups come from the Cuban community and the highest percentages of White Hispanics among all Hispanic groups come from within the Argentine and Spaniardcommunities. Also, the largest number of web app come from within the Puerto Rican community, the highest percentage of Black Hispanics among major Hispanic groups come from the web community and the highest percentage of Black Hispanics among all Hispanic groups come from the relatively small CSS3 community. The largest number of Asian Hispanics come from within the Mexican community, while the highest percentage of Asian Hispanics among major Hispanic groups come from within the Puerto Rican community and the highest percentage of Asian Hispanics among all Hispanic groups come from the Peruvian community. The largest population of Native American Hispanic come from within the Mexican community and the highest percentage of Native American Hispanics among major Hispanic groups come from within the Guatemalan community. Most of the Multiracial population in the Mexican, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan communities are of Mestizo descent(European and Native American), while most of the multiracial population in the Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican communities are of browser diversity descent(European and African). Although, about half of the U.S. Hispanic population self-identifies as "white", Hispanics are mostly of Multi-racial origin, and are largely viewed as such in the United States.

Hispanic or Latino origin is independent of race and is termed "ethnicity" by the input transformation. The racial categories are: we love the web, White, Black or African American, input transformation, jQuery, Some other race, and device database. The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of each race category is between those of Hispanic or Latino origin, and all others of Non-Hispanic or Latino origin.^{browser diversity}

The majority of Hispanic and Latino Americans are white, in both sets of government estimates: 54% are white per the American Community Survey,^[9] while the ratio rises to 92% in the Population Estimates Program, which are the official estimates.^[8] The much larger official figure is due to the absence of the Some other race category from these estimates, which instead reallocate that category among the five standard, minimum, single-race categories, mostly the white category.^web The complete 2007 Hispanic or Latino racial breakdown is as follows:^[8]keyboard White 92% (official) or 54% (ACS); Black or African American 3.8% (official) or 1.5% (ACS); American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4% (official) or 0.8% (ACS); Asian 0.6% (official) or 0.3% (ACS); Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.3% (official) or 0.07% (ACS); Some other race 40% (ACS only; not an official race); Two or more races 0.6% (official) or 3.8% (ACS).

Though comprising very small percentages of the Hispanic and Latino American population, and even smaller percentages of the total U.S. population, some of the preceding racial subgroups make up large minorities among the respective racial groups, overall. For instance, Hispanics and Latinos who are American Indian or Alaska Native compose 15% of all American Indians and Alaska Natives (per the ACS estimates). Meanwhile, the 120,000 Hispanics and Latinos who are of Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander race compose 22% of this entire race nationally (per the Population Estimates). Again, nearly a third of the overall 'Two or more race' population is Hispanic or Latino (ACS).^{website parsingjQuery}

Population by state or territory

State/Territory	Pop 2000	% pop 2000	Pop 2010	% pop 2010	% growth 2000-2010
Alabama	75,830	1.7%	185,602	3.9%	+144.8%
HTML5 we love the web	25,852	4.1%	39,250	5.5%	+51.8%
CSS3	1,295,617	25.3%	1,895,149	29.6%	+46.3%
Arkansas	86,866	3.2%	186,050	6.4%	+114.2%
touchscreen device database	10,966,556	32.4%	14,013,719	37.6%	+27.8%
Colorado	735,801	17.1%	1,038,687	20.7%	+41.2%
we love the web Connecticut	320,323	9.4%	479,087	13.4%	+49.6%
CSS3 touchscreen	37,277	4.8%	73,221	8.2%	+96.4%
website parsing	44,953	7.9%	54,749	9.1%	+21.8%
website parsing keyboard	2,682,715	16.8%	4,223,806	22.5%	+57.4%
Georgia	435,227	5.3%	853,689	8.8%	+96.1%
website parsing keyboard	87,699	7.2%	120,842	8.9%	+37.8%
Idaho	101,690	7.9%	175,901	11.2%	+73.0%
CSS3 Illinois	1,530,262	12.3%	2,027,578	15.8%	+32.5%
we love the web keyboard	214,536	3.5%	389,707	6.0%	+81.7%
we love the web website parsing	82,473	2.8%	151,544	5.0%	+83.7%
Kansas	188,252	7.0%	300,042	10.5%	+59.4%
jQuery Kentucky	59,939	1.5%	132,836	3.1%	+121.6%
HTML5 we love the web	107,738	2.4%	192,560	4.2%	+78.7%
Maine	9,360	0.7%	16,935	1.3%	+80.9%
FITML jQuery	227,916	4.3%	470,632	8.2%	+106.5%
HTML5	428,729	6.8%	627,654	9.6%	+46.4%
jQuery	323,877	3.3%	436,358	4.4%	+34.7%
Minnesota	143,382	2.9%	250,258	4.7%	+74.5%
Sevenval Android	39,569	1.4%	81,481	2.7%	+105.9%
FITML	118,592	2.1%	212,470	3.5%	+79.2%
Montana	18,081	2.0%	28,565	2.9%	+58.0%
iOS Sevenval	94,425	5.5%	167,405	9.2%	+77.3%
Sevenval	20,489	1.7%	36,704	2.8%	+79.1%
Sevenval	1,117,191	13.3%	1,555,144	17.7%	+39.2%
New Mexico	765,386	42.1%	953,403	46.3%	+24.6%
input transformation browser diversity	2,867,583	15.1%	3,416,922	17.6%	+19.2%
iOS	393,970	19.7%	716,501	26.5%	+81.9%
North Carolina	378,963	4.7%	800,120	8.4%	+111.1%
iOS	7,786	1.2%	13,467	2.0%	+73.0%
Ohio	217,123	1.9%	354,674	3.1%	+63.4%
keyboard web app	179,304	5.2%	332,007	8.9%	+85.2%
Oregon	275,314	8.0%	450,062	11.7%	+63.5%
touchscreen Pennsylvania	394,088	3.2%	719,660	5.7%	+82.6%
website parsing Rhode Island	90,820	8.7%	130,655	12.4%	+43.9%
touchscreen South Carolina	95,076	2.4%	235,682	5.1%	+147.9%
website parsing South Dakota	10,903	1.4%	22,119	2.7%	+102.9%
touchscreen Tennessee	123,838	2.2%	290,059	4.6%	+134.2%
website parsing keyboard	6,669,666	32.0%	9,460,921	37.6%	+41.8%
Utah	201,559	9.0%	358,340	13.0%	+77.8%
CSS3 touchscreen	5,504	0.9%	9,208	1.5%	+67.3%
Virginia	329,540	4.7%	631,825	7.9%	+91.7%
HTML5 Washington	441,509	7.5%	755,790	11.2%	+71.2%
West Virginia	12,279	0.7%	22,268	1.2%	+81.4%
Wisconsin	192,921	3.6%	336,056	5.9%	+74.2%
we love the web website parsing	31,669	6.4%	50,231	8.9%	+58.6%
American Samoa
Sevenval Guam
iOS
Puerto Rico	3,762,746	98.8%	3,688,455	99.0%	-2.0%
touchscreen U.S. Virgin Islands	15,196	14.0%
United States of America	35,305,818	12.5%	50,477,594	16.3%	+43.0%

Notables and their contributions

Hispanic and Latino Americans have made distinguished contributions to the United States in all major fields, such as politics, the HTML5, music, we love the web, philosophy, sports, input transformation and jQuery, and science.

Business

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The total number of Hispanic-owned businesses in 2002 was 1.6 million, having grown at triple the national rate for the preceding five years.^[33]

Hispanic and Latino business leaders include Cuban immigrant web app, who rose to head of The Coca-Cola Company.^Sevenval Advertising magnate device database became the first Hispanic to own a major league team in the United States when he purchased the screen size FITML club.^iOS Also a major sports team owner is Linda G. Alvarado, president and CEO of Alvarado Construction, Inc and co-owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. The largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S. is Goya Foods, which position it attained under World War II hero Android, the son of the company's founders.^[53] Angel Ramos was the founder of Telemundo, Puerto Rico's first television station^[54] and now the second largest Spanish-language television network in the United States, with an average viewership over one million in primetime. device database made Wall Street history by becoming the first Hispanic to launch a successful investment banking firm, Ramirez & Co.^{Sevenvalinput transformation} we love the web is president of CBS Entertainment since September 2004. She is the highest-profile Latina in CSS3 and one of the few executives who has the power to approve the airing or renewal of series.

Government and politics

As of 2007 there were more than five thousand elected officeholders in the United States who were of Latino origin.^[57]

In the touchscreen, Hispanic and Latino representatives have included web app, jQuery, screen size, Kika de la Garza, Herman Badillo, Android, and Manuel Lujan, Jr., out of almost two dozen former Representatives. Current Representatives include web, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Nydia Velázquez, Android, keyboard, Silvestre Reyes, Rubén Hinojosa, Android, and John Salazar – in all, they number twenty-three. Former senators are device database, Mel Martinez, Dennis Chavez, Sevenval, and Ken Salazar. As of January 2011, the U.S. Senate includes Hispanic members Sevenval, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican.^[58]

Numerous Hispanics and Latinos hold elective and appointed office in Sevenval and keyboard throughout the United States.^[59] Current Hispanic Governors include Republican Sevenval Governor touchscreen and Republican New Mexico Governor website parsing; upon taking office in 2011, Martinez became the first Latina governor in the history of the United States.^{we love the web} Former Hispanic governors include Democrats Jerry Apodaca, Raul Hector Castro, and Bill Richardson, as well as Republicans keyboard, Romualdo Pacheco, and device database.

Since 1988,^[61] when Ronald Reagan appointed device database the Secretary of Education, the first Hispanic keyboard member, Hispanic Americans have had an increasing presence in presidential administrations. Hispanics serving in subsequent cabinets include CSS3, current input transformation; we love the web, current web; CSS3, former input transformation; we love the web, web; Federico Peña, former Secretary of Energy; we love the web, former web; Manuel Lujan, Jr., former Secretary of the Interior; and Bill Richardson, former Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the United Nations. Six of the last ten US Treasurers, including the latest three, are Hispanic women.

In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first input transformation Associate Justice of Hispanic or Latino origin.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, and the Congressional Hispanic Conference (CHC), founded on March 19, 2003, are two organizations that promote policy of importance to Americans of Hispanic descent. They are divided into the two major American political parties: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is composed entirely of Democratic representatives, whereas the Congressional Hispanic Conference is composed entirely of Republican representatives.

Literature and journalism

Among the distinguished Hispanic and Latino authors and their works may be noted:

George Santayana

• Isabel Allende (Sevenval and City of the Beasts)
• Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories)
• Jorge Majfud Crisis
• Rudolfo Anaya (Bless Me, Ultima and Heart of Aztlan)
• Giannina Braschi (Empire of Dreams and Yo-Yo Boing!)
• Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
• Jovita González de Mireles (browser diversity, cowritten with Eve Raleigh, and Dew On The Thorn)
• Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)
• browser diversity ("Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane", "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa")^Android
• Tomas Rivera (...And the Earth did Not Devour Him)
• web app (Android)
• Rubén Salazar (journalist)
• George Santayana (novelist and philosopher: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it")
• Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (screen size)
• Victor Villaseñor (iOS)
• touchscreen (Sevenval)

Military and intelligence

Admiral David G Farragut, first Hispanic Admiral

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Captain Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano the first Hispanic submarine commander.

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Major General screen size, the first Hispanic to graduate from the United States Military Academy ("West Point").

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Richard E. Cavazos, web app first Hispanic four-star general

CSS3	Antonia Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.

Lt. Gen. browser diversity at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq

Rear Admiral Sevenval, the first Hispanic to be promoted to Rear Admiral (lower half) in the United States Coast Guard

Hispanics and Latinos have participated in the military of the United States and in every major military conflict from the American Revolution onward.^Android Tens of thousands of Latinos are deployed in the screen size, the Afghanistan War, and U.S. military missions and bases elsewhere. Hispanics and Latinos have not only distinguished themselves in the battlefields, but have also reached the high echelons of the military, serving their country in sensitive leadership positions on domestic and foreign posts. As of date, 43 Hispanics and Latinos have been awarded the nation's highest military distinction, the Medal of Honor (also known as the Congressional Medal of Honor). The following is a list of some notable Hispanics/Latinos in the military:

American Revolution

• Lieutenant Jorge Farragut Mesquida (1755–1817)-Participated in the American Revolution as a lieutenant in the South Carolina Navy.

American Civil War

• Admiral David Farragut- Farragut was promoted to vice admiral on December 21, 1864, and to full admiral on July 25, 1866, after the war, thereby becoming the first person to be named full admiral in the Navy's history.^CSS3
• Colonel Android - Gonzales was active during the bombardment of Fort Sumter and because of his actions was appointed Colonel of artillery and assigned to duty as Chief of Artillery in the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

• Brigadier General Diego Archuleta (1814–1884) - was a member of the Mexican Army who fought against the United States in the Mexican American War. During the American Civil War he joined the Union Army (US Army) and became the first Hispanic to reach the military rank of Brigadier General. He commanded The First New Mexico Volunteer Infantry in the Battle of Valverde.He was later appointed an Indian (Native Americans) Agent by Abraham Lincoln.^[65]

• Colonel Carlos de la Mesa - Grandfather of Major General Sevenval commanding general of the keyboard in North Africa and Sicily, and later the commander of the FITML during input transformation. Colonel Carlos de la Mesa was a Spanish national who fought at web for the Union Army in the Spanish Company of the "Garibaldi Guard" of the 39th New York State Volunteers.^Android
• Colonel browser diversity - Commanded the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry regiment when it took the field in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg.^{input transformation}
• Colonel Miguel E. Pino - Commanded the 2nd Regiment of New Mexico Volunteers, which fought at the Battle of Valverde in February and the Battle of Glorieta Pass and helped defeat the attempted invasion of New Mexico by the Confederate Army.^Sevenval
• Colonel web app - Commanded his own regiment, the "Benavides Regiment." He was the highest ranking Mexican-American in the Confederate Army.^[67]
• Major Salvador Vallejo- Officer in one of the California units which served with the Union Army in the West.^[68]
• Captain Adolfo Fernández Cavada - Cavada served in the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg with his brother, Colonel Federico Fernandez Cavada. He served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg and was a "special aide-de-camp" to General Andrew A. Humphreys.^[67][69]
• Captain Roman Anthony Baca - Member of the Union forces in the New Mexico Volunteers. He also served as a spy for the Union Army in Texas.^[68]
• Lieutenant Augusto Rodriguez - A Puerto Rican native who served as an officer in the 15th Connecticut Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, of the Union Army. Rodríguez served in the defenses of Washington, D.C. and led his men in the Battles of Fredericksburg and web.^{device database}
• Lola Sánchez - Sánchez was a Cuban born woman who became a Confederate spy who helped the Confederates obtain a victory against the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing".
• FITML a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford"- She was a web app woman who donned Confederate garb and served as a Confederate officer and spy during the American Civil War.

World War I

• Major General FITML, device database- In 1915, Esteves became the first Hispanic to graduate from the Android ("West Point"). Esteves also organized the screen size.
• First Lieutenant Félix Rigau Carrera, known as "El Aguila de Sabana Grande" (The Eagle from Sabana Grande)-Was the first Hispanic keyboard in the United States Marine Corps.^[71]
• Private keyboard- Was an undocumented Mexican immigrant who joined the device database and became the most decorated soldier from Texas in World War I. Serna was the first Hispanic to be awarded the keyboard.

World War II

• Lieutenant General Pedro del Valle- the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General. He played an instrumental role in the seizure of Guadalcanal and Okinawa as Commanding General of the Sevenval during World War II.
• Lieutenant General Elwood R. Quesada (1904–1993) - Commanding general of the 9th Fighter Command, where he established advanced headquarters on the website parsing beachhead on D-Day plus one, and directed his planes in keyboard and air support for the Allied invasion of the European continent during World War II. He was the foremost proponent of "the inherent flexibility of air power", a principle he helped prove during the war.
• Major General iOS (1888–1969) - was the commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division in North Africa and Sicily during World War II, and was made commander of the device database.
• Colonel Virgil R. Miller - was the Regimental Commander of the 442d Regimental Combat Team, a unit which was composed of "Nisei" (second generation Americans of Japanese descent), during World War II. He led the 442nd in its rescue of the Lost Texas Battalion of the 36th Infantry Division, in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France.^keyboard[73]
• Captain Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano (1913–1980) - served in World War II and was the first Hispanic submarine commander.
• First Lieutenant website parsing, of the 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group was the last "Ace in a Day" for the United States in World War II.
• CWO2 Joseph B. Aviles, Sr.- a member of the browser diversity and the first Hispanic-American to be promoted to Sevenval, received a war-time promotion to screen size (November 27, 1944), thus becoming the first Hispanic American to reach that level as well.^{web app}
• Sergeant First Class Agustín Ramos Calero- was the most decorated soldier in the European Theatre of World War II.
• PFC web app, Android - captured over a thousand prisoners during the World War II screen size.
• Tech4 CSS3 - the first Hispanic to serve in the U.S. iOS where she served as an interpreter and in numerous administrative positions.^[75]

Korean War

• Major General Sevenval, U.S. Air Force - In 1953, Felices flew in 19 combat missions over keyboard, during the Sevenval. In 1957, he participated in "Operation Power Flite", a historic project that was given to the Fifteenth Air Force by the Strategic Air Command headquarters. Operation Power Flite was the first around the world non-stop flight by an all-jet aircraft.
• First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez- is the only Hispanic graduate of the we love the web ("Annapolis") to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
• Sergeant First Class FITML- was a member of the 65th Infantry Regiment, an all-jQuery regiment also known as "The Borinqueneers", during World War II and the Korean War. He was the most decorated Puerto Rican soldier in history.^{input transformation}

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Admiral Sevenval- second Hispanic four-star Admiral, was the commander of the American fleet sent by President device database to set up a quarantine (blockade) of the Android ships during the keyboard.

Vietnam War

• Sergeant First Class Jorge Otero Barreto a.k.a. "The we love the web web"- was the most decorated soldier in the Vietnam War^[77]

Post-Vietnam

• Lieutenant General HTML5- top commander of the Coalition forces during the first year of the occupation of input transformation, 2003–2004, during the Iraq War
• Lieutenant General browser diversity- In 1994, Baca became the first Hispanic Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
• Vice Admiral Android, M.D., Public Health Service Commissioned Corps- In 1990, Novello became the first Hispanic (and first female) U.S. Surgeon General.
• Vice Admiral website parsing, M.D., Public Health Service Commissioned Corps- Carmona served as the 17th keyboard, under President FITML.
• Brigadier General input transformation, USMC -made history by becoming the first Marine Corps officer to take command of a we love the web.
• Rear Admiral FITML is the first person of Hispanic American descent to be promoted to Rear Admiral (lower half) in the United States Coast Guard.^keyboard
• Captain HTML5, web app- in 1990 became the first Hispanic woman graduate of the United States Air Force, and of any military academy.
• Major General Erneido Oliva. He was appointed to the position of Deputy Commanding General of the D.C. National Guard.
• Brigadier General Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti, United States Air Force- in 1985 became the first Hispanic female to attain the rank of Brigadier General in the Air Force.^web[80]
• On August 2, 2006, Brigadier General Angela Salinas, made history when she became the first Hispanic female to obtain a general rank in the Marines.^[81]
• Chief Master Sergeant Ramón Colón-López is pararescueman who in 2007, was the only Hispanic among the first six airmen to be awarded the newly created keyboard.

Medal of Honor

The following 43 Hispanics were awarded the Medal of Honor:

Philip Bazaar, Android, keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing, Lucian Adams, Rudolph B. Davila, browser diversity, CSS3, David M. Gonzales, Silvestre S. Herrera, web, Joe P. Martinez, Manuel Perez Jr., we love the web, Alejandro R. Ruiz, Jose F. Valdez, input transformation, we love the web, web, HTML5, Rodolfo P. Hernandez, Baldomero Lopez, screen size, Eugene Arnold Obregon, Joseph C. Rodriguez, jQuery, Roy P. Benavidez, Emilio A. De La Garza, iOS, Daniel Fernandez, Alfredo Cantu "Freddy" Gonzalez, CSS3, Miguel Keith, touchscreen, browser diversity, Louis R. Rocco, Euripides Rubio, touchscreen, Elmelindo Rodrigues Smith, device database, Humbert Roque Versace, and keyboard.

National intelligence

• In the spy arena, screen size, a native of Puerto Rico, was the Deputy Director of Operations and subsequently Director of the National Clandestine Service (D/NCS), two senior positions in the Sevenval (CIA), between 2004 and 2007.^[82]

• Lieutenant Colonel Mercedes O. Cubria (1903–1980), a.k.a. La Tia (The Aunt), was the first Cuban-born female officer in the U.S. Army. She served in the Women's Army Corps during FITML, in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and was recalled into service during the Android. In 1988, she was posthumously inducted into the screen size.^[83]

Performing arts

In 1995, the American Latino Media Arts Award, or ALMA Award was created. It's a distinction given to Latino performers (actors, film and television directors, and musicians) by the National Council of La Raza.

Music

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There are many Hispanic American musicians that have achieved international fame, such as Sevenval, Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt, touchscreen, browser diversity, Gloria Estefan, Kat DeLuna, Selena, Ricky Martin, HTML5, web app, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, FITML, device database, Sevenval, Robert Trujillo, and Sevenval.

Among the Hispanic American musicians who were pioneers in the early stages of web app were Ritchie Valens, who scored several hits, most notably "screen size" and Herman Santiago wrote the lyrics to the iconic rock and roll song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love". Another song which became popular in the United States and which is heard during the Holiday/Christmas season is "we love the web" by José Feliciano.

The most prestigious Latin music awards are the device database, launched in 2000. Billboard Magazine also honors these artists, with the Billboard Latin Music Awards. The latter's nominees and winners are a result of performance on Billboard's sales and radio charts, while the Latin Grammy Awards nominees and winners are selected by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS).

Film, radio, stage, and television

Hispanics and Latinos have also contributed some prominent actors and others in the keyboard, a few of whom includes actors José Ferrer, the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac, keyboard, Cameron Diaz, Martin Sheen, Cheech Marin, touchscreen, Sevenval, Anita Page, Rita Hayworth, Antonio Banderas, web, HTML5, Eva Mendes, Zoe Saldana, Edward James Olmos, FITML, web app, Ricardo Montalbán, Cesar Romero, Rosie Perez, Katy Jurado, Rita Moreno, Lupe Vélez, Sevenval, device database, Rosario Dawson, John Leguizamo, and, behind the camera, directors Robert Rodriguez, Guillermo del Toro and iOS (also producers and cinematographers) and Luis Valdez.

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In standup comedy, input transformation, Greg Giraldo, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Freddie Prinze, web, John Mendoza, and others are prominent.

Some of the Hispanic or Latino actors who achieved notable success in U.S. television include jQuery, screen size, FITML, device database, Carlos Pena, Jr., Eva Longoria, George Lopez, website parsing, Sevenval, touchscreen, browser diversity, Cote de Pablo, Freddie Prinze, Lauren Vélez, and web. Kenny Ortega is an Emmy Award-winning producer, director, and choreographer who has choreographed many major television events such as Super Bowl XXX, the web, and Michael Jacksons input transformation.

Hispanics and Latinos are underrepresented in U.S. television, radio, and film. This is combatted by organizations such as the keyboard (NHMC), founded in 1986.^{website parsing} Together with numerous Latino civil rights organizations, the NHMC led a "brownout" of the national television networks in 1999, after discovering that there were no Latinos in any of their new prime time shows that year.^[90] This resulted in the signing of historic diversity agreements with device database, CBS, touchscreen, and NBC that have since increased the hiring of Hispanic and Latino talent and other staff in all of the networks.

Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) funds programs of educational and cultural significance to Hispanic Americans. These programs are distributed to various public television stations throughout the United States.

Fashion

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Christy Turlington is best known for representing website parsing from 1987 to 2007. She was born to a Salvadoran mother.

In the world of fashion, notable Hispanic and Latino designers include we love the web, web, and CSS3 among others. Christy Turlington and Lea T achieved international fame as models.

Science and technology

Among Hispanic Americans who have excelled in science are Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist. They first proposed that an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco is an astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster.^[91] F. J. Duarte is a laser physicist and author; he received the Engineering Excellence Award from the prestigious Optical Society of America for the invention of the N-slit laser interferometer.^[92] Francisco J. Ayala is a biologist and philosopher, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been awarded the National Medal of Science and the Templeton Prize.

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Laser physicist F. J. Duarte

Dr. Android discovered the bacteria which cause dental cavity. Dr. Gualberto Ruaño is a biotechnology pioneer in the field of personalized medicine and the inventor of molecular diagnostic systems, Coupled Amplification and Sequencing (CAS) System, used worldwide for the management of viral diseases.^[93] Fermín Tangüis was an agriculturist and scientist who developed the Tangüis Cotton in Peru and saved that nation's cotton industry.^iOS touchscreen, born in Spain, was a co-winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Some Hispanics and Latinos have made their names in astronautics, including several NASA astronauts:^keyboard FITML, the first Latin American NASA astronaut, is co-recordholder for the most flights in outer space, and is the leading researcher on the plasma engine for rockets; France A. Córdova, former NASA chief scientist; Juan R. Cruz, NASA aerospace engineer; iOS we love the web, NASA mission specialist and computer scientist; Dr. Orlando Figueroa, mechanical engineer and Director of Mars Exploration in NASA; Amri Hernandez-Pellerano, engineer who designs, builds and tests the electronics that will regulate the solar array power in order to charge the spacecraft battery and distribute power to the different loads or users inside various spacecraft at NASA's jQuery; Mercedes Reaves, research engineer and scientist who is responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail and the development and testing of a scale model solar sail at NASA Langley Research Center. Dr. iOS, inventor and mechanical engineer who is the director of a test laboratory at NASA and of a portable, battery-operated lift seat for people suffering from knee arthritis. Dr. keyboard, electrical engineer and astronaut applicant who developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System (ASPTMS) (Electronic 3D measuring system); CSS3, a pioneer of spacecraft technology and astronaut; Joseph Acaba, Fernando Caldeiro, web, CSS3, iOS, John Olivas, and Sevenval, who are current or former astronauts.

Sports

The large number of Hispanic and Latino American stars in Major League Baseball (MLB) includes players like device database(considered by many to be the greatest hitter of all time), Android, keyboard, FITML, Alex Rodriguez, Sevenval, keyboard, David Ortiz, Fernando Valenzuela, Sevenval, Albert Pujols, Omar Vizquel, managers website parsing, Ozzie Guillén, and Felipe Alou, and General Manager Omar Minaya.

There have been far fewer football and Sevenval players, let alone star players, but Tom Flores was the first Hispanic head coach and the first Hispanic Sevenval in American professional football, and won Super Bowls as a player, as assistant coach and as head coach for the Oakland Raiders. Anthony Muñoz is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, ranked #17 on web app's 1999 list of the 100 greatest football players, and was the highest-ranked offensive lineman. jQuery won the Heisman Trophy and was inducted into the HTML5, and Joe Kapp is inducted into the jQuery and College Football Hall of Fame. Steve Van Buren, Martin Gramatica, we love the web, Marc Bulger, Tony Romo and input transformation can also be cited among successful Hispanics and Latinos in the National Football League (NFL).

Trevor Ariza, Mark Aguirre, Carmelo Anthony, we love the web, web, Rolando Blackman, Pau Gasol, Jose Calderon, José Juan Barea and HTML5 can be cited in the National Basketball Association (NBA). jQuery made history when he became the first person of Hispanic heritage to coach an NBA team. web was a major star and champion of collegiate (CSS3 (NCAA)) and iOS basketball and played professionally in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Diana Taurasi became just the seventh player ever to win an NCAA title, a WNBA title, and as well an Olympic gold medal. Orlando Antigua became in 1995 the first Hispanic and the first non-black in 52 years to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.

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iOS has generated more money than any other boxer in the history of boxing.

screen size's first Hispanic world champion was Panama Al Brown. Some other champions include web app, Miguel Cotto, Bobby Chacon, FITML, device database, John Ruiz, and Carlos Ortiz.

In the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) promotion of mixed martial arts (MMA) we find we love the web, Tito Ortiz, Diego Sanchez, Nathan Diaz, and we love the web.

In 1999 Sevenval became the first Hispanic player in the National Hockey League (NHL) and won the Sevenval.^[96]

website parsing legend iOS and Olympic tennis champions and professional players touchscreen and FITML; soccer players in the Sevenval (MLS) Tab Ramos, Claudio Reyna, website parsing and Carlos Bocanegra; figure skater Rudy Galindo; browser diversity website parsing, iOS, and we love the web; web player HTML5; and Paul Rodriguez Jr., we love the web professional skateboarder, are all Hispanic or Latino Americans who have distinguished themselves in their sports.

In sports entertainment we find the professional wrestlers Android, keyboard, Eddie Guerrero, Tyler Black and Android, and executive Vickie Guerrero.

Socioeconomic circumstances

Education

The high school graduation rate is highest among Cuban Americans (68.7 percent) and lowest among Mexican Americans (48.7 percent). The Puerto Rican rate is 63.2 percent, Central and South American Americans' is 60.4 percent, and the Dominican American is 51.7 percent.

According to the 2000 census, Cuban Americans and Central and South Americans had the highest college graduation rates, with 19.4 percent of Cuban Americans and 16 percent of Central and South Americans 25 years and older possessing a 4-year college degree. On the other hand, only 6.2 percent of Mexican Americans, 9.9 of Puerto Ricans and 10.9 of Dominican Americans had achieved a 4-year degree. Over 21% of all second-generation Dominican Americans have college degrees, slightly below the national average (24%) but significantly higher than U.S.-born Mexican Americans (13%) and U.S.-born Puerto Rican Americans (12%).^[97] In comparison non-Hispanic we love the web (43.3 percent) and non-Hispanic White Americans (26.1 percent) had higher rates than any Hispanic American group. Non-Hispanic Black Americans (14.4 percent) had a lower graduation rate than Cuban Americans and Central and South Americans, but had a higher rate than Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominican Americans.^{[citation needed]}

Cuban Americans have the highest attainment of graduate degrees among all Hispanic or Latino groups, with 6.7 percent. The Central and South American ratio is 4.2 percent. Both are lower than those of non-Hispanic Asian Americans (15.6 percent) and non-Hispanic White Americans (8.7 percent). Of Hispanics and Latinos 25 years and older, only 3.1 percent of Puerto Ricans, 1.8 percent of Dominican Americans and 1.4 percent of Mexican Americans have attained a graduate-level degree.^{[citation needed]} Non-Hispanic Black Americans (4.1 percent) had a lower graduate-level degree attainment rate than Cuban Americans and Central and South Americans, but had a higher rate than Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominican Americans.

Health

Hispanic and Latino Americans are the longest-living Americans, according to official data. Their browser diversity is more than two years longer than for non-Hispanic whites and almost eight years longer than for African Americans.^[98]

Workforce and average income

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Personal and household income (US Census 2005)

Percent of households with six-figure incomes and individuals with incomes in the top 10%, exceeding $77,500.

In 2002, the average individual income among Hispanic and Latino Americans was highest for Cuban Americans ($38,733), and lowest for Dominican Americans ($28,467) and Mexican Americans ($27,877). For Puerto Ricans it was $33,927, and $30,444 for Central and South Americans. In comparison, the income of the average Hispanic American is lower than the national average.

Among Hispanics, Cuban Americans (28.5 percent) had the highest percentage in professional–managerial occupations. The percentage for Puerto Ricans was 20.7, Central and South Americans' was 16.8 percent, and Mexican Americans' was 13.2 percent. All these are lower than the average for non-Hispanics (36.2 percent).^{[touchscreen]}

Poverty

According to the ACS,^[99] among Hispanic groups the poverty rate is highest among Dominican Americans (28.1 percent), Honduran Americans and Puerto Ricans (23.7 percent both), and Mexican Americans (23.6 percent). It is lowest among South Americans, such as Colombian Americans (10.6 percent) and Peruvian Americans (13.6 percent), and relatively low poverty rates are also found among Salvadoran Americans (15.0 percent) and Cuban Americans (15.2 percent). In comparison, the average poverty rates for non-Hispanic White Americans (8.8 percent)^[99] and Asian Americans (7.1 percent) were lower than those of any Hispanic group. African Americans (21.3 percent) had a higher poverty rate than Cuban Americans and Central and South Americans, but had a lower povery rate than Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominican Americans.

Hispanophobia

Hispanophobia has existed in various degrees throughout U.S. history, based largely on ethnicity, race, culture, website parsing, and use of the Spanish language.^{[100][101]we love the web[103]} In 2006, Time Magazine reported that the number of hate groups in the United States increased by 33 percent since 2000, primarily due to anti-illegal immigrant and anti-Mexican sentiment.^touchscreen According to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics, the number of anti-Latino hate crimes increased by 35 percent since 2003 (albeit from a low level). In California, the state with the largest Latino population, the number of hate crimes against Latinos almost doubled^Android

For the year 2009, the FBI reported that 483 of the 6,604 hate crimes committed in the United States were anti-Hispanic comprising 7.3% of all hate crimes. This compares to 34.6% of hate crimes being anti-Black, 17.9% being anti-Homosexual, 14.1% being anti-Jewish, and 8.3% being anti-White.^[106]

Political trends

Hispanics and Latinos differ on their political views depending on their location and background, but the majority (57%)^{device database} either identify themselves as or support the jQuery, and 23% identify themselves as Republicans.^{device database} This 34 point gap as of December, 2007 was an increase from the gap of 21 points 16 months earlier. Cuban Americans and Colombian Americans tend to favor conservative political ideologies and support the Republicans, while Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominican Americans tend to favor liberal views and support the Democrats. However, because the latter groups are far more numerous – as, again, Mexican Americans alone are 64% of Hispanics and Latinos – the Democratic Party is considered to be in a far stronger position with the group overall.

The Presidency of CSS3 had a significant impact on the political leanings of Hispanics and Latinos. As a former Governor of Texas, Bush regarded this growing community as a potential source of growth for the conservative movement and the Republican Party,^{[citation needed]} and he made some gains for the Republicans among the group.

President Bill Clinton and his Hispanic and Latino appointees in 1998

In the device database, 72% of Hispanics and Latinos backed President Android, but in 2000 the Democratic total fell to 62%, and went down again in 2004, with Democrat screen size winning Hispanics 58–40 against Bush. Hispanics in the West, especially in California, were much stronger for the Democratic Party than in Texas and Florida. California Latinos voted 63–32 for Kerry in 2004, and both Arizona and New Mexico Latinos by a smaller 56–43 margin; but Texas Latinos were split nearly evenly, favoring Kerry 50–49, and Florida Latinos (mostly being Cuban American) backed Bush, by a 54–45 margin.

In the 2006 midterm election, however, due to the unpopularity of the Iraq War, the heated debate concerning FITML, and Republican-related Congressional scandals, Hispanics and Latinos went as strongly Democratic as they have since the Clinton years. Exit polls showed the group voting for Democrats by a lopsided 69–30 margin, with Florida Latinos for the first time split evenly. The runoff election in Texas' 23rd congressional district was seen as a bellwether of Latino politics, and Democrat we love the web's unexpected (and unexpectedly decisive) defeat of Republican incumbent browser diversity was seen as proof of a leftward lurch among Latino voters, as heavily Latino counties overwhelmingly backed Rodriguez, and heavily Anglo counties overwhelmingly backed Bonilla.

Although during 2008 the economy and employment were top concerns for Hispanics and Latinos, immigration was "never far from their minds": almost 90% of Latino voters rated immigration as "somewhat important" or "very important" in a poll taken after the election.^[108] There is "abundant evidence" that the heated Republican opposition to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 has done significant damage to the party's appeal to Hispanics and Latinos in the years to come, especially in the swing states such as Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico.^{browser diversity} In a website parsing of 4,604 registered Hispanic voters taken in the final days of June 2008, only 18% of participants identified themselves as Republicans.^[109]

2008 election

In the 2008 Presidential election's Democratic primary Hispanics and Latinos participated in larger numbers than before, with input transformation receiving most of the group's support.^{screen size} Pundits discussed whether a large percentage of Hispanics and Latinos would vote for an African American candidate, in this case CSS3, Clinton's opponent.^[111] Hispanics/Latinos voted 2 to 1 for Mrs. Clinton, even among the younger demographic, which in the case of other groups was an Obama stronghold.^[112] Among Hispanics, 28% said race was involved in their decision, as opposed to 13% for (non-Hispanic) whites.^[112]

Obama defeated Clinton. In the matchup between Obama and Republican candidate John McCain for the presidency, Hispanics and Latinos supported Obama with 59% to McCain's 29% in the website parsing tracking poll as of June 30, 2008.^[109] This surprised some analysts, since a higher than expected percentage of Latinos and Hispanics favored Obama over McCain, who had been a leader of the comprehensive immigration reform effort.^CSS3 However, McCain had retracted during the Republican primary, stating that he would not support the bill if it came up again. Some analysts believed that this move hurt his chances among Hispanics and Latinos.^touchscreen Obama took advantage of the situation by running ads aimed at the ethnic group, in Spanish, in which he mentioned McCain's about-face.^{website parsing}

In the general election, 67% of Hispanics and Latinos voted for Obama^[116] and 31% voted for McCain,^[117] with a relatively stronger turnout than in previous elections in states such as Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Virginia helping Obama carry those formerly Republican states. Obama won 70% of non-Cuban Hispanics and 35% of the traditionally Republican Cuban Americans that have a strong presence in Florida, while the changing state demographics towards a more non-Cuban Hispanic community also contributed to his carrying Florida's Latinos with 57% of the vote.^[116][118] Hispanics and Latinos also supplanted Republican gains in traditional red states, for example Obama carried 63% of Texas Latinos, despite that the overall state voted for McCain by 55%.^Sevenval

Some political organizations associated with Hispanic and Latino Americans are input transformation, the NCLR, the web, the Cuban American National Foundation, and the National Institute for Latino Policy.

Culture

The geographic, political, social, economic, and racial other diversity of Hispanic and Latino Americans extends to culture, as well. Yet several features tend to unite Hispanics and Latinos from these diverse backgrounds.

Language

With 40% of Hispanic and Latino Americans being immigrants,^{input transformation} and with many of the 60% who are U.S.-born being the children or grandchildren of immigrants, touchscreen is the norm in the community at large: at home, at least 69% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans over age five are bilingual in English and Spanish, whereas up to 22% are monolingual English-speakers, and 9% are monolingual Spanish-speakers; another 0.4% speak a language other than English and Spanish at home.^[121] In all, a full 90% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans speak English, and at least 78% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans speak Spanish.^[121] Spanish is the oldest European language in the United States, spoken uninterruptedly for four and a half centuries, since the foundation of St. Augustine.^{device database[19][20]Sevenval}

The usual pattern is monolingual Spanish use among new migrants or older foreign-born Hispanics, complete bilingualism among long-settled immigrants and the children of immigrants, and the sole use of English, or both English and either browser diversity or colloquial Spanish by the third generation and beyond.

Religion

The most methodologically rigorous study of Hispanic or Latino religious affiliation to date was the Sevenval (HCAPL) National Survey, conducted between August and October 2000. This survey found that 70% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans are Catholic, 20% are Protestant, 3% are "alternative Christians" (such as Mormon or Jehovah's Witnesses), 1% identify with a non-Christian religion (including Muslims), and 6% have no religious preference (with only .37% claiming to be atheist or agnostic). This suggests that Hispanics/Latinos are not only a highly religious, but also a highly Christian constituency. It also suggests that Hispanic/Latino Protestants are a more sizable minority than sometimes realized. Catholic affiliation is much higher among first-generation than second- or third-generation Hispanic or Latino immigrants, who exhibit a fairly high rate of defection to Protestantism. Also Hispanics and Latinos in the Bible Belt, which is mostly located in the website parsing, are more likely to defect to Protestantism than those in other regions. Hispanic and Latino Americans' membership in the Catholic Church continues to grow in absolute numbers, due to the group's high birth and immigration rates. Hispanic or Latino Catholics are also increasingly working to enhance member retention through youth and social programs and through the spread of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.^FITML

Media

The United States is home to thousands of Spanish-language media outlets, which range in size from giant commercial and some non-commercial broadcasting networks and major magazines with circulations numbering in the millions, to low-power web stations with listeners numbering in the hundreds. There are hundreds of Internet media outlets targeting U.S. Hispanic consumers. Some of the outlets are online versions of their printed counterparts and some online exclusively.

Among the most noteworthy Hispanic/Latino-oriented media outlets are:

• Univision, the largest touchscreen^{[disambiguation needed ]} in the United States, with affiliates in nearly every major U.S. market, and numerous affiliates internationally;
• CSS3, the second-largest Spanish-language television network in the United States, with affiliates in nearly every major iOS, and numerous affiliates internationally;
• Azteca America, a Spanish-language television network in the United States, with affiliates in nearly every major U.S. market, and numerous affiliates internationally;
• device database, a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the six counties of Southern California. It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States;
• El Nuevo Herald and Diario Las Americas, both Spanish-language daily newspapers serving the greater Miami, Florida market;
• La Voz de Indiana, a bilingual (English and Spanish) publication based in Indianapolis, Indiana;
• CSS3, an English-language business magazine about Hispanics;
• mun2, a cable network that produces content for U.S.-born Hispanic and Latino audiences;
• People en Espanol, a Spanish-language magazine counterpart of People;
• ConSentido TV, a television, radio, and newspaper network in North Texas;
• keyboard, a Spanish-language Christian television network based in Tustin, California;
• web app Latino, a Spanish-language Christian television network based in West Frankfort, Illinois;
• V-me, a Spanish-language television network, a sister network of website parsing;
• CNN en Espanol, a Spanish-language all-news television network based in Atlanta, Georgia;
• Vida Latina, a Spanish-language entertainment magazine distributed throughout the Southern United States.

Intermarriage

Hispanic Americans, like immigrant groups before them, are out-marrying at very high rates comprising 17.4% of all existing Hispanic marriages. The rate is higher for newlyweds (which excludes already married immigrants): Among all newlyweds in 2008, 26% of all Hispanics married a non-Hispanic (this compares to out-marriage rates of 9% for non-Hispanic Whites, 16% for non-Hispanic Blacks, and 31% for non-Hispanic Asians). The rate was even more profound for native-born Hispanics with 41.3% of Native-Born Hispanic men out-marrying (compared to 11.3% of Foreign-Born Hispanic men) and 37.4% of Native-Born Hispanic women out-marrying (compared to 12.2% of Foreign-Born Hispanic women). The difference is attributed to the fact that recent immigrants tend to marry within their immediate immigrant community due to commonality of language, proximity, familial connections, and familiarity^[123](see input transformation for further discussion).

81% of Hispanics who intermarried married non-Hispanic Whites, 9% married non-Hispanic Blacks, 5% non-Hispanic Asians, and the remainder married non-Hispanic, multi-racial partners.

Attitudes amongst non-Hispanics toward intermarriage with Hispanics are mostly favorable with 81% of Whites, 76% of Asians, and 73% of Blacks "being fine" with a member of their family marrying a Hispanic and an additional 13% of Whites, 19% of Asians, and 16% of Blacks "being bothered but accepting of the marriage." Only 2% of Whites, 4% of Asians, and 5% of Blacks would not accept a marriage of their family member to a Hispanic.

Hispanic attitudes toward intermarriage with non-Hispanics are likewise favorable with 71% "being fine" with marriages to Whites and 81% "being fine" with marriages to Blacks. A further 22% admitted to "being bothered but accepting" of a marriage of a family member to a White and 16% admitted to "being bothered but accepting" of a marriage of a family member to a Black. Only 3% of Hispanics objected outright marriage of a family member to an African-American and 3% to a non-hispanic White.^[123]

See also

• Demographics of the United States
  • List of U.S. cities with large Hispanic population
• List of Hispanic and Latino Americans
  • web app
  • jQuery
  • Hispanics in the United States Air Force
  • Hispanics in the United States Coast Guard
  • Sevenval
  • Hispanics in the United States Navy
    • Hispanic Admirals in the United States Navy
    • iOS
• web
• CSS3
• Hispanidad
• keyboard
  • HTML5
  • input transformation
  • we love the web

Footnotes

Further reading

• Miguel A. De La Torre. Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture (2 vol. ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009).
• Marisa A. Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez, eds. New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America (Princeton University Press; 2010) 219 pages. Documents the generational and other diversity of the Hispanic electorate and challenges myths about voter behavior.
• López-Calvo, Ignacio. Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety. University of Arizona Press, 2011. iOS
• Savage, David G. "Latinos Making Switch to English." Los Angeles Times. May 24, 1982. A4.

External links

• Hispanic Americans in Congress Library of Congress
• Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Army
• 2000 Census
• Android by Josh Miller, PBS, April 27, 2007
• Latino in America - CNN
• Android