Spanish Americans
Spanish Americans (Spanish: españoles estadounidenses, hispanoestadounidenses, or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.[3]
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| 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 | |
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Spanish Americans Media
Dominique Bouligny lawyer and politician, elected as U.S. Senator from Louisiana.
Spanish American actress Anita Page in Our Modern Maidens (1929).
The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Little Spain, important nucleus for many decades of the Spanish community in New York.
Mission Santa Barbara from the east, early 20th century
El Centro Español de Tampa is a cultural house built in 1912 in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida.
Spanish children from the SS Heliopolis after arriving in Hawaii in 1907.
Albert Estopinal, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
Actress Rita Hayworth is of paternal Spanish descent.
Santa Barbara, California’s annual Old Spanish Days fiesta celebration.
Spanish Mission Santa Barbara, founded in 1786.
References
- ↑ Szucs, Loretto Dennis; Luebking, Sandra Hargreaves (1 January 2006). The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. Ancestry Publishing. p. 361. ISBN 9781593312770 – via Internet Archive.
English US census 1790.
- ↑ 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