These include the large circular migration between the island and the mainland United States, a long tradition of the government of Puerto Rico promoting its ties to those stateside, the continuing existence of racial-ethnic prejudice and discrimination in the United States, and high residential and school segregation. The strength of stateside Puerto Rican identity is fueled by a number of factors. The Migration Division (known as the "Commonwealth Office"), also part of Puerto Rico's Department of Labor, was created in 1948, and by the end of the 1950s, was operating in 115 cities and towns stateside. In July 1930, Puerto Rico's Department of Labor established an employment service in New York City. The government of Puerto Rico has a long history of involvement with the stateside Puerto Rican community. Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in Manhattan There is also the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington, D.C., the National Puerto Rican Forum, the Puerto Rican Family Institute, Boricua College, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies of the City University of New York at Hunter College, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women and the New York League of Puerto Rican Women, Inc., among others. ASPIRA was established in New York City in 1961 and is now one of the largest national Latino nonprofit organizations in the United States. Important Puerto Rican institutions have emerged from this long history.
In New York City, which has the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, they began running for elective office in the 1920s, electing one of their own to the New York State Assembly for the first time in 1937. Puerto Ricans have been migrating to the continental United States since the 19th century and migrating since 1898 (after the island territory was transferred from Spain to the United States) and have a long history of collective social advocacy for their political and social rights and preserving their cultural heritage. Teatro Puerto Rico (1950s) in the South Bronx, New York City
A large portion of the Puerto Rican population in the United States proper resides in the Northeast and Florida. The portmanteau " Nuyorican" refers to Puerto Ricans and their descendants in the New York City area. ĭespite newer migration trends, metropolitan New York City continues to be the largest demographic and cultural center for Puerto Ricans in the mainland United States, with Philadelphia having the second-largest community. While the 2010 Census counted the number of Puerto Ricans living in the States at 4.6 million, estimates in 2019 show the Puerto Rican population to be 5.83 million. Stateside Puerto Ricans are also the largest Caribbean-origin group in the country, representing over one-third of people with origins in the geographic Caribbean region. At 9.6% of the Hispanic population in the United States, Puerto Ricans are the second-largest Hispanic group nationwide, after Mexican Americans and are 1.78% of the entire population of the United States. territory, all Puerto Ricans living on both the island and stateside have US citizenship. Stateside Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños de Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans (Spanish: puertorriqueño-americanos, puertorriqueño-estadounidenses), or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ancestry to the unincorporated US territory of Puerto Rico. Taíno, Europeans, Africans, White Latin Americans, Afro-Latin Americans, Mulattos, Mestizos, Latino Americans, White Puerto Ricans, Black Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, Cuban Americans. Majority Roman Catholic and Protestant, minority African diasporic religions Puerto Rican Spanish and American English Also major cities in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas down South, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin in the Midwest and California, Nevada and Hawaii out west, among other areas. Smaller numbers in other parts of the country, including other parts of the Northeast like Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland.
(New York State, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts) Majority concentrated in the Northeastern United States and the southern half of Florida
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