West Indian Americans
Caribbean Americans 13 million (about 4% of total U.S. population) mainly in the metropolitan area of New York and Miami, to a lesser degree Orlando, Tampa, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Atlanta, among others. New York , Florida , New Jersey , Massachusetts , Pennsylvania , Connecticut , Maryland and Georgia and the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands . Smaller populations in Texas , California , Illinois , Ohio , Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , Louisiana and Rhode Island . American English , 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 ), Spanish Predominantly: Christianity , Hinduism , Islam
Minority: Yoruba , Rastafari , Traditional African Religion , Afro-American religions , Amerindian Religion , Buddhism , Judaism , Jainism , Baháʼí , East Asian religions Taíno , Arawak , English , French , Dutch , German , Asian , Caribbean Canadians , Black Canadians , Black British
Caribbean born Populations, 1960-2009[ 1]
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West Indian Americans or Caribbean Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to the Caribbean , unless they are of native descent. As of 2016, about 13 million — about 4% of the total U.S. population — have Caribbean ancestry.[ 2]
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