Editing White people (section)

==== Puerto Rico (U.S.)====
{{Main|White Puerto Ricans}}
{{See also|Puerto Ricans|Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico}}

[[Puerto Rico]] had a small stream of predominantly European immigration.<ref name="Census1899">{{cite web |title=Report on the Census of Porto Rico, 1899|date=20 July 2015 |url=https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1899portorico.pdf|access-date=6 November 2017|url-status=live|website=Census.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720184053/https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1899portorico.pdf|archive-date=20 July 2015 }}</ref> Puerto Ricans of [[Spaniards|Spanish]], [[Italians|Italian]] and French descent comprise the majority.
According to the most recent [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the number of people who identified as "White alone" was 536,044 with an additional non-Hispanic 24,548, for a total of 560,592 or 17.1% of the population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Race and Ethnicity in the United States: 2010 Census and 2020 Census|website=Census.gov|url=https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-state-2010-and-2020-census.html|access-date=31 May 2024}}</ref>

Previously in 1899, one year after the United States acquired the island, 61.8% or 589,426 people self-identified as White.<ref name="Census1899" /> One hundred years later (2000), the total increased to 80.5% or 3,064,862;<ref name="topuertorico.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.topuertorico.org/pdf/2kh72.pdf|title=Racial composition data for Puerto Rico: 2000 Census|website=Topuertorico.org|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref> due to a change of race perceptions, mainly because of Puerto Rican elites to portray Puerto Rico's image as the "White island of the Antilles", partly as a response to scientific racism.<ref name=HPRBWHITE>[http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/loveman-muniz.pdf How Puerto Rico Became White{{snd}}University of Wisconsin-Madison] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207224431/http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/loveman-muniz.pdf |date=7 February 2012 }}. (PDF).</ref>

Hundreds are from [[Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico|Corsica]], [[French immigration to Puerto Rico|France]], [[Italian people|Italy]], [[Portuguese people|Portugal]], [[Irish immigration to Puerto Rico|Ireland]], [[Scottish people|Scotland]], and [[German immigration to Puerto Rico|Germany]], along with large numbers of immigrants from Spain. This was the result of granted land from Spain during the ''Real Cedula de Gracias de 1815'' ([[Royal Decree of Graces of 1815]]), which allowed European Catholics to settle on the island with a certain amount of free land.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

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|''[[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rico]]'' ''([[United States|US]])''
| 17.1%
| 560,592
| [[2020 United States census|2020]]<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url= https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/puerto-rico-population-change-between-census-decade.html|title= Puerto Rico Population Declined 11.8% From 2010 to 2020 |website=census.gov|date=25 August 2021|access-date= 21 May 2024}}</ref>
|}
Between 1960 and 1990, the census questionnaire in Puerto Rico did not ask about race or color.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cde.wisc.edu/|title=Home|website=Center for Demography and Ecology}}</ref> Racial categories therefore disappeared from the dominant discourse on the Puerto Rican nation. However, the [[2000 United States Census|2000 census]] included a racial self-identification question in Puerto Rico and, for the first time since 1950, allowed respondents to choose more than one racial category to indicate mixed ancestry. (Only 4.2% chose two or more races.) With few variations, the census of Puerto Rico used the same questionnaire as in the U.S. mainland. According to census reports, most islanders responded to the new federally mandated categories on race and ethnicity by declaring themselves "White"; few declared themselves to be Black or some other race.<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/SOC217_PIMENTEL/duany.pdf Representation of racial identity among Island Puerto Ricans]. Mona.uwi.edu.</ref> However, it was estimated that 20% of White Puerto Ricans may have Black ancestry.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pushblack.us/news/what-you-need-know-about-puerto-ricos-black-history |title=What You Need to Know About Puerto Rico's Black History &#124; PushBlack Now |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729015340/https://www.pushblack.us/news/what-you-need-know-about-puerto-ricos-black-history |url-status=dead }}</ref>