Spanish Americans facts for kids
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| Self-identified as "Spanish American" 2,598,873 (2000) Self-identified with Spanish ancestry |
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| Christianity (Predominantly Roman Catholicism, minority Protestantism); non-religious | |
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Spanish Americans (Spanish: estadounidenses españoles, hispanoestadounidenses, or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.
Images for kids
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Dominique Bouligny lawyer and politician, elected as U.S. Senator from Louisiana.
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Spanish American actress Anita Page in Our Modern Maidens (1929).
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The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Little Spain, important nucleus for many decades of the Spanish community in New York.
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El Centro Español de Tampa is a cultural house built in 1912 in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida.
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Spanish children from the SS Heliopolis after arriving in Hawaii.
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Albert Estopinal Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
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Actress Rita Hayworth of paternal Spanish descent.
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Santa Barbara, California’s annual Old Spanish Days fiesta celebration.
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Mission Santa Barbara was founded in 1786.
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Bob Martinez first person of Spanish descent to be elected to the office of Governor of Florida.
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John Garamendi 46th Lieutenant Governor of California.
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Charlie Sheen American actor
