Puerto Ricans in the mainland (or "Puerto Rican Diaspora," "Nuyorican", "stateside or mainland Puerto Ricans" or, Puerto Rican American (Spanish: Estadounidenses puertorriqueños) are Americans of Puerto Rican origin, including those who migrated to the United States mainland from the island.
They form the second largest White Hispanics group in the United States, and contain the second largest group of White Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most Pu...
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Puerto Ricans in the mainland (or "Puerto Rican Diaspora," "Nuyorican", "stateside or mainland Puerto Ricans" or, Puerto Rican American (Spanish: Estadounidenses puertorriqueños) are Americans of Puerto Rican origin, including those who migrated to the United States mainland from the island.
They form the second largest White Hispanics group in the United States, and contain the second largest group of White Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most Puerto Ricans ultimately descend from a combination of Europeans, especially Spaniards, a minority Africans, and the indigenous Taino peoples, now extinct since the 1500's with a significant number of Asians, mostly Chinese.
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory ("Commonwealth") of the United States and the residents of the island have been United States citizens since 1917 through an Act of the United States Congress (see Jones-Shafroth Act). There are now close to four million Puerto Ricans living stateside (the Diaspora), with reports...
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