Spanish Americans
Spanish Americans (Spanish: españoles estadounidenses, hispanoestadounidenses, or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.[3]
| File:Americans with Spanish Ancestry by state.svg | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Self-identified as "Spanish American" 2,598,873 (2000) Self-identified with Spanish ancestry | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Predominantly Roman Catholicism, minority Protestantism); non-religious | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Spanish Americans Media
- Anita Page - OUR MODERN MAIDENS.jpg
Spanish American actress Anita Page in Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Spanish Creole family portrait in New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana, 1790, painted by José Francisco de Salazar.
- Mission Santa Barbara with cross in front.jpg
Spanish Mission Santa Barbara in California, founded in 1786.
- Centro Español de Tampa.jpg
El Centro Español de Tampa is a cultural house built in 1912 in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida.
- A bit of old Spain as seen at Ybor City, Tampa, Florida.jpg
Postcard for Ybor City, often referred to as a "bit of old Spain".
- Spanish children from the Heliopolis in Hawaii, 1907.jpg
Spanish children from the SS Heliopolis after arriving in Hawaii in 1907
- EstopinalOfLouisiana.jpg
Albert Estopinal, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
- El Museo de los Isleños.jpg
Los Isleños Museum Complex in Saint Bernard.
- Rita Hayworth Only Angels Have Wings.jpg
Actress Rita Hayworth, whose father was Spanish.
References
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ US Census Bureau 2014 American Community Survey B03001 1-Year Estimates HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY SPECIFIC ORIGIN Archived 12 February 2020 at Archive.today retrieved 18 October 2015. Number of people of Hispanic and Latino Origin by specific origin(except people of Brazilian origin).
- ↑ Most dictionaries give this definition as the first or only definition for "Spanish American". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (3rd ed.) (1992). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-44895-6. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) (2003). Springfield: Merriam-Webster. ISBN 0-87779-807-9. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (2nd ed.) (1987). New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-50050-4. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (2007). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920687-2. Webster's New Dictionary and Thesaurus (2002). Cleveland: Wiley Publishing. ISBN 978-0-471-79932-0