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A Puerto Rican American (Spanish: puertorriqueño-americano) or Stateside Puerto Rican (estadounidense de origen puertorriqueño) is an American born in either Puerto Rico or the United States that is of full or partial Puerto Rican origin and has lived a significant part of their lives in one of the states of the United States or the District of Columbia.At nine percent of the Latino population in the United States Puerto Ricans are the second largest Hispanic group nationwide and comprise 1.5% of the entire population of the United States.
