Since the establishment of the Spanish Empire, there have historically been immigrants from the former Captaincy General of Santo Domingo to other parts of New Spain which are now part of the United States, … See more

Almost half of all the Dominican Americans today arrived since the 1990s, especially in the early part of that decade. There has been another surge of immigration in recent years as immigration from Mexico has declined, w… See more

Since 1980, the Census Bureau has asked U.S. residents to classify their race separately from their Hispanic origin, if any.
In 2010, 29.6% of Dominican Americans responded that they were white, while 12.9% cons… See more