Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. They account for more than 12.5% of the country's population: 30.7 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006, forming about 64% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The United States, six of whose states historically were part of Mexico, is home to the second largest Mexican community in the world. Most Mexican Americans are descended from Europeans, especially ...
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Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. They account for more than 12.5% of the country's population: 30.7 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006, forming about 64% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The United States, six of whose states historically were part of Mexico, is home to the second largest Mexican community in the world. Most Mexican Americans are descended from Europeans, especially Spaniards, and the Indigenous peoples of Mexico. Mexican American settlement concentrations are in metropolitan and rural areas across the United States, usually in the Southwest. However, many cities in the South and the Northeast have seen substantial increases in the Mexican foreign-born and Mexican American population.
Large Mexican-American population by size and percentage in the cities of:
New York City perhaps home to 99,000 Mexicans (whether immigrants and American-born) and are the third largest Hispanic national group in the city....
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