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Hispanic – Southwestern U.S. ǀ Hispanic ǀ Iberian American
Southwestern Hispanic Americans are people identifying or identified as Hispanic or Latino/a sampled in the American Southwest. As of 2010, Hispanics accounted for 16.3% of the U.S. population, or around 50.5 million people. The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050 is 132.8 million people, or 30.2% of the nation's total projected population on that date. American activist Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona.
The Hispanic – Southwestern U.S. population data represent a broad group of DNA samples from the American Southwest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Southwest). The sample population of 105 Hispanic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans) individuals also is part of the FBI’s DNA database. These samples were provided by the University of North Texas Health Science Center, in Fort Worth, TX.
Source publication: Population Data on the Thirteen CODIS Core Short Tandem Repeat Loci in African Americans, U.S. Caucasians, Hispanics, Bahamians, Jamaicans, and Trinidadians, JFS, 1999, 44, 1277-1286.
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