Mestizos in the United States
Appearance
Total population | |
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18,501,942[1][not in the source given] 5.7% of total United States population (2017) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
States with a high Mexican American and Central American population such as California, Colorado, Nevada and Texas | |
Languages | |
Spanish, Indigenous languages of the Americas, Brazilian Portuguese | |
Religion | |
Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
White Latino Americans, Hispanos, Ladino, Latin American Amerindians, Genízaro, White Latin Americans, Indigenous peoples / Native Americans, Indigenous Mexican Americans, Spanish Americans |
Mestizo Americans are Americans whose racial and/or ethnic identity is Mestizo, i.e. a mixed ancestry of European and Amerindian from Latin America (usually Ibero-Indigenous mixed ancestry).
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates: HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2019.