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Florida is the third most populous state in the United States. With a population of 18.8 million according to the 2010 census, Florida is the most populous state in the Southeastern United States, and the second-most populous state in the south behind Texas. Within the United States, it contains the highest percentage of people over 65 (17.3%), and the 8th fewest people under 18 (21.9%). There are people from a variety of ethnic, racial, national and religious backgrounds. The state has attracted a number of immigrants.〔(State Population Facts - Florida )〕 Florida has a majority ethnic group, with approximately 65% considered White. There are a number of national communities in the state, particularly Cubans who migrated there during the past century to the southern end. Spanish is the state's second-most spoken language, especially in Miami-Dade County area. == Racial makeup == According to the 2005 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 60.1% White, 17% African-American, 2.1% Asian American, 1.4% others (American Indians), and the remaining 20% are Hispanics or Latino (of any ethnicity or national origin). Florida has one of the largest African-American populations in the country, but ranks the second highest Latino population in the East coast outside of New York state and Florida's Asian-American population has grown in high rates since the late 1990s, the majority being ethnic Chinese, Filipinos and Vietnamese settled in the Gulf Coast. The state has a some federally recognized American Indian tribes, like the Seminoles in the southeastern part of the state. Florida's Hispanic population includes large communities of Cuban Americans in Miami (mainly from refugees fleeing the Castro regime) and Tampa, Puerto Ricans in Tampa and Orlando, and Central American and Mexican in inland West-Central and South Florida, like the Lake Okeechobee area. The Hispanic community continues to grow more affluent and mobile: between the years of 2000 and 2004, Lee County in Southwest Florida, which is largely suburban in character, had the fastest Hispanic population growth rate of any county in the United States. Florida has a large and diverse Hispanic population, aside from the dominant Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican populations, there are also significant populations of Colombians, Dominicans, and Nicaraguans, among others. Non-Hispanic White Floridians of longer-present generations are in the culturally southern areas. Some native white Floridians, especially those who have descended from long-time Florida families, affectionately refer to themselves as "Florida crackers.," while others see it as a derogatory term akin to "redneck." Like all the other southern states, they descend mainly from Scots-Irish as well as some English or Welsh settlers, and even some evident French and Spanish heritage going back 300 to 400 years. Non-Hispanic blacks are present throughout the state, having one of the fastest growing black population in the US. Over half of the non-hispanic blacks are of African American descent, the remaining portion is made up of West Indians. African Americans are present in large numbers in the metro areas of Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and throughout North Florida. There is a large West Indian/Caribbean population in the Miami metropolitan area, to a lesser extant in Orlando and Tampa. Florida has a large West Indian population, having the largest population of Haitians and the second largest population of Jamaicans in the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demographics of Florida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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