Mexican American

Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. They account for more than 12.5% of United States' population: 30.7 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006, forming about 64% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The United States is home to the second largest Mexican community in the world. Most Mexican Americans are descended from the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Europeans, especially Spaniards. Mexican American settlement concentrations are in metropolitan and rural areas across the United States, usually in the Southwest. However, many cities in the South and the Northeast have seen substantial increases in the Mexican foreign-born and Mexican American population.