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41.3 million |
Estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2004, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest race or ethnic minority |
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102.6 million
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Projected Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2050
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64 percent
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The proportion of Hispanic-origin people who are of Mexican background
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1.6 million
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Number of Hispanic-owned businesses in 2002, up 31 percent from 1997
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1.1 million
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Number of Latino veterans of the U.S. armed forces
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7.6 million
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Number of Hispanic citizens who reported voting in the 2004 presidential election, up from 5.9 million four years earlier
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$34,241
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Median income of Hispanic households in 2004 |
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2.7million
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Number of Hispanics age 18+ who had at least a bachelor’s degree in 2004 |