When the 925,000 Hispanic blacks - a group generally made up of some Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Cubans - are subtracted from the total black population, the difference in size between the country's two largest minority groups shrinks even further.

The poster's 28 mug shots include 10 blacks, 1 Hispanic, 9 women and 8 Jews, some fitting in more than one category.

While some data sets treat Hispanic origin as a distinct category, allowing for dinstinct counts of Hispanic blacks, Hispanic whites, etc., in the DOE data, Hispanic is treated as a race, so each student is either Hispanic, Black, White or another race.

The racial and ethnic make-up of the county was 40.84% Hispanic or Latino with 0.52% of the overall population being Hispanic blacks who reported black or African American as their only race.

Mr. Rowland's nominees, who would replace three blacks, one Hispanic and one white, are by far the most controversial appointments of his young administration.

Other blacks in Herndon, both Hispanic and non-Hispanic, took advantage of the new option to check off other racial categories to which they said they belong.

For instance, 165 non-Hispanic blacks identified themselves with other races, as did 45 Hispanic blacks.

According to the 2010 census of the US Census Bureau blacks (including Hispanic blacks) comprised 13.6% of the US population.