What percent of U.S American Citizens have Mexican, Spanish or Latino cultural-ethnic background and heritage?

The majority of the 290 million people currently living in the United States descend from European immigrants who have arrived since the establishment of the first colonies. Major components of the European segment of the United States population are descended from immigrants from Germany (15.2 percent), Ireland (10.8 percent), England (8.7 percent), Italy (5.6 percent), and Poland (3.2 percent) with many immigrants also coming from Scandinavian or Slavic countries. Other significant immigrant populations came from eastern and southern Europe and French Canada; few immigrants came directly from France. These numbers, however, are inaccurate as many citizens listed themselves as "American" on the census (7.2 percent). A county by county map of plurality ethnic groups (http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf.c... reveals that the areas with the largest "American" ancestry populations are historically British-American areas.

Likewise, while there were few immigrants directly from Spain, Hispanics from Mexico and South and Central America are considered the largest minority group in the country, comprising 13.4 percent of the population in 2002. This has brought increasing use of the Spanish language in the United States.

About 12.9 percent (2000 census) of the American people are African Americans, many of whom are descendants of the enslaved Africans brought to the U.S. between the 1620s and 1807. There has been in recent years a large influx of African immigrants to the United States due to the instability in political and economic opportunities in various nations in Africa.

A third significant minority is the Asian American population (4.2 percent), most of whom are concentrated on the West Coast.

The aboriginal population of Native Americans, such as American Indians and Inuit, make up about 1.5 percent of the population.

According to the 2000 census, America has 31 ethnic groups with at least one million people.

Does being born and raised in SoCal, speaking spanish, but having ancestors that are American, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Italian qualify as having the "cultural" heritage or do you just judge people based on their direct blood line. Kind of how the Nazis judged who was a proper Aryan.

I know what a Mexican is but please explain to me what's a Spanish and then tell me what's a Latino. When you tell me the meaning of these two words I could answer your question, maybe!

In the South West are 50% Hispanics of all colors and 5O% others non-Hispanics of all colors and social status

In Texas about the 40% of people are from hispanic decent i guess.

About 70% if we include European Latinos.

I'm with Nora. Leave it alone.

i am not really sure but i bet its pretty high

35%?