Caribbean Americans
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(12,600,000 3.9% of the total U.S. population (2015)) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York, New York City, New York Metropolitan area, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Maryland, Washington D.C. | |
| Languages | |
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Mainly: English-based creole languages (Jamaican Creole, Jamaican Patois, Trinidadian Creole, Tobagonian Creole, Bajan Creole, Sranan Tongo, Virgin Islands Creole, etc.), French, French-based creole languages (Haitian Creole, Antillean Creole), English, Trinidadian English, Spanish, Papiamento |
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| Religion | |
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Predominantly: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Yoruba, Amerindian Religion, Rastafari, Traditional African Religion, Afro-American religions Minority: Buddhism, Judaism, Jainism, Bahá'í |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| Taíno, Arawak, African Americans, Indo-Caribbean American, English, French, Dutch, German, Asian, Caribbean Canadians |
(12,600,000
Mainly: English-based creole languages (Jamaican Creole, Jamaican Patois, Trinidadian Creole, Tobagonian Creole, Bajan Creole, Sranan Tongo, Virgin Islands Creole, etc.), French, French-based creole languages (Haitian Creole, Antillean Creole), English, Trinidadian English, Spanish, Papiamento
Predominantly: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Yoruba, Amerindian Religion, Rastafari, Traditional African Religion, Afro-American religions
West Indian Americans or Caribbean Americans are Americans who can trace their recent ancestry to the Caribbean, unless they are of native descent. About 3,019,686 Americans— 0.934% of the total US population have Caribbean ancestry in 2016.
The Caribbean is the source of the United States' earliest and largest Black immigrant group and the primary source of growth of the Black population in the U.S. The region has exported more of its people than any other region of the world since the abolition of slavery in 1834. While the largest Caribbean immigrant sources to the U.S. are Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti, U.S. citizen migrants also come from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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