Editing Puerto Ricans (section)

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{{Main|White Puerto Ricans|Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico}}
In the [[1899 Puerto Rico Census|1899 census]], taken the year Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States following its invasion and annexation in the [[Spanish–American War]], 61.8% of the people were identified as [[White people|White]]. In the [[2020 United States census]] the total of Puerto Ricans that self-identified as White was 17.1% or 560,592 out of the 3,285,874 people living in Puerto Rico,<ref name="data.census.gov">[https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2020.P1?g=040XX00US72]</ref> down from 75.8% in the 2010 Census, reflecting a change in perceptions of race in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Puerto Rico's History on race" /><ref name="2010.census.gov">{{cite web|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/ |title=2010.census.gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706203009/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/ |archive-date=2011-07-06}}</ref><ref>[http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=72] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628161934/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=72|date=June 28, 2012}}</ref> For every United States census until 2010, most Puerto Ricans self identified as "white".<ref name="CIA World Factbook">{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/puerto-rico/ |title=The World Factbook |publisher=Cia.gov |access-date=2015-07-23}}</ref><ref name="Puerto Rico's History on race" /><ref name="mona.uwi.edu 2">{{cite web |url=http://www.mona.uwi.edu/liteng/courses/e21h_2007/documents/santiago/Neither%20Black%20nor%20White-The%20Representation%20of%20Puerto%20Rican%20Racial%20Identity.RTF |title=Department of Literatures in English &#124; Department of Literatures in English &#124; the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica |website=www.mona.uwi.edu |access-date=27 January 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212130544/http://www.mona.uwi.edu/liteng/courses/e21h_2007/documents/santiago/Neither%20Black%20nor%20White-The%20Representation%20of%20Puerto%20Rican%20Racial%20Identity.RTF |archive-date=12 December 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/puerto-rico/|title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency|website=Cia.gov|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>[http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/ 2010.census.gov] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110324073045/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/ |date=March 24, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stewartsynopsis.com/racial_amnesia.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171842/http://stewartsynopsis.com/racial_amnesia.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 3, 2016|title=Racial Amnesia|date=March 3, 2016|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref>

The [[European ethnic groups|European]] ancestry of Puerto Ricans comes primarily from one source: [[Spanish people|Spaniards]] (including [[Canarian people|Canarians]], [[Catalan people|Catalans]], [[Castilian people|Castilians]], [[Galician people|Galicians]], [[Asturian people|Asturians]], [[Andalusian people|Andalusians]], and [[Basque people|Basques]]).
The Canarian cultural influence in Puerto Rico is one of the most important components in which many villages were founded from these immigrants, which started from 1493 to 1890 and beyond. Many Spaniards, especially Canarians, chose Puerto Rico because of its Hispanic ties and relative proximity in comparison with other former Spanish colonies. They searched for security and stability in an environment similar to that of the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico was the most suitable. This began as a temporary exile which became a permanent relocation and the last significant wave of Spanish or European migration to Puerto Rico.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=HmRIxmMxY6c&gl=GB |title=MANUEL MORA MORALES: Canarios en Puerto Rico. CANARIAS EMIGRACIÓN |publisher=YouTube |date=2008-01-20 |access-date=2015-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102154030/https://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=HmRIxmMxY6c&gl=GB |archive-date=January 2, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/jml34/Canary.htm |title=The Spanish Of The Canary Islands |publisher=Personal.psu.edu |access-date=2015-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924071931/http://www.personal.psu.edu/jml34/Canary.htm |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Other sources of European populations are [[Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico|Corsicans]], [[French immigration to Puerto Rico|French]], [[Italian Puerto Ricans|Italians]], [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] (especially Azoreans), [[Greek people|Greeks]], [[German immigration to Puerto Rico|Germans]], [[Irish immigration to Puerto Rico|Irish]], [[Scottish people|Scots]], [[Maltese people|Maltese]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]], [[English people|English]], and [[Danish people|Danes]].