non-Hispanic

adjective

non-His·​pan·​ic ˌnän-hi-ˈspa-nik How to pronounce non-Hispanic (audio)
: not Hispanic
non-Hispanic white voters
non-Hispanic noun

Examples of non-Hispanic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web By 2045, non-Hispanic white people will no longer be the majority of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Barron Witherspoon, Sr., Fortune, 19 Apr. 2024 In the Miami area, some of those independents are smaller Latin companies that are taking Hispanic and non-Hispanic business formerly held by the larger chains. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024 Miami’s population of 450,000 people is nearly three-quarters Hispanic, 14 percent Black and about 12 percent non-Hispanic white. Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024 More than half of faculty employed at a California community college are white non-Hispanic. Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 10 Apr. 2024 The negative trends for rural non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native people were especially pronounced. Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024 In 2020, Trump won voters who were 65 or older by 11 points and non-Hispanic white voters by about 13 points. Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024 While Latino voter turnout is improving, in 2020 more than three-quarters of non-Hispanic white Americans voted, compared with just under 54% for Latinos, according to researchers at the City University of New York. Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024 Seniors are more likely than ever to be Black or Hispanic, and those populations are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to leave a will. USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of non-Hispanic was in 1920

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“Non-Hispanic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/non-Hispanic. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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