Hispanic+heritage+notes+icsPS17

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/16/11-facts-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans http://gru.edu/diversity/hhm/facts.php http://www.floridahispanicheritage.com/facts.cfm?lang=en

Thesis statement : We keep this alive because they play a big part in American society.

> In 2013, over 6.3 million travelers visited Florida from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America.
 * The U.S. Hispanic population is over [|54.1 million] people.
 * people who are of Mexican origin [|account for two-thirds] (34 million) of the nation’s Latinos.
 * At 27 years, the average age of Latinos is a full decade lower than that of the U.S average (37 years).
 * A [|majority of Latino adults (55%)] claim they are Catholic, while 16% are Protestants and 5% are mainline Protestants.
 * The [|Latino and/or Hispanic] presence in the United States is the second longest to the [|Native American].
 * Hispanics became the first American citizens in the newly acquired [|Southwest] territory after the [|Mexican–American War], and remained the majority in several states until the 20th century.
 * There are 1.1 million Hispanic veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
 * The port city of Tampa served as the primary staging area during the Spanish-American War in 1898 for U.S. troops on the way to battle in Cuba.
 * More than 60% of Hispanics reside in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties.
 * Goods produced in Florida account for 23% of all U.S. exports to Latin American and the Caribbean - higher than any other state.
 * The majority of Florida's Hispanics trace their heritage back to Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Mexico.
 * Ellen Lauri Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is a former astronaut and current director of flight crew operations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. After STS-120 she will become the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center.
 * Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1993. The astronauts were studying the earth's ozone layer.