U.S. Hispanics reside mostly in California, Texas and Florida - CNN.com: The American Hispanic population is dispersing across the country, but is still anchored mainly in three states, according to a new study released Thursday.
More than half the U.S. Hispanic population resides in three states: California, Texas and Florida, according to the Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project.
California is home to the largest Hispanic population -- one in four U.S. Hispanics are also Californians.
Those three states, plus New York, Illinois, Arizona, New Jersey and Colorado, contain three-quarters of the nation's Latino population, according to Pew's analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
While those eight states retain a high Hispanic population, new opportunities are beckoning people to the West and South, said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic Research at Pew.
