Immigration to Oregon
Summer 2000
Oregon Demographics (Demographics are statistics about human populations)

Name _______________________________

1. What percent of the immigrants who have come to the United States since World War II have been from Mexico and Central America?

 

2. What percent have come from Asia?

 

3. In general, why have Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and other Hispanics come to the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington)?

 

4. By 1980, what was Oregon's largest minority?

 

5. In 1990, what percent of Oregon's population was Hispanic?