Editing Pawtucket, Rhode Island (section)

===2000 census===
[[File:Cape Verdean Museum, Pawtucket, Rhode Island.jpg|thumb|right|Pawtucket's Cape Verdean Museum]]
According to the 2000 census, 20.6% of Pawtucket residents are French or French-Canadian.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pawtucketri.com/about/2000census.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529094724/http://www.pawtucketri.com/about/2000census.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Pawtucket, RI 2000 Census|archivedate=May 29, 2008}}</ref> Like nearby cities Providence, [[Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River]], and [[New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford]], Pawtucket hosts a significant population from across the former [[Portuguese Empire]] (11.6%),<ref name="autogenerated1" /> including a significant [[Demographics of Cape Verde|Cape Verdean]] population.

Pawtucket is also one of the few areas of the United States with a significant [[Liberia]]n population, mostly refugees from [[Charles G. Taylor|Charles Taylor]]'s regime; Rhode Island has the highest per capita Liberian population in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ziner |first=Karen Lee E|title=R.I., with its sizable Liberian population, prepares for an Ebola case / Poll|url=https://www.providencejournal.com/article/20141001/NEWS/310019867|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Providence Journal}}</ref> Pawtucket has a high concentration of West Africans.