How Irish is Santa Cruz?

Should't be too hard to find someone Irish to kiss tonight. More than 12 percent of the population shares the green country origin, or roughly one of every 10 people you see.

More accurately, tonight, it's probably almost every one you see tonight, in spirit.

Here is the city-data.com chart of Santa Cruz's ethnic makeup as of 2009:

• Other - 20,190 (37.0%)
• German - 7,708 (14.1%)
• Irish - 7,038 (12.9%)
• English - 6,461 (11.8%)
• Italian - 4,764 (8.7%)
• Scottish - 1,956 (3.6%)
• French - 1,953 (3.6%)
• Polish - 1,570 (2.9%)
• Russian - 1,471 (2.7%)
• United States - 1,414 (2.6%)
• Norwegian - 1,145 (2.1%)
• Swedish - 1,132 (2.1%)
• Portuguese - 1,126 (2.1%)
• Scotch-Irish - 1,084 (2.0%)
• Dutch - 1,017 (1.9%)
• Danish - 726 (1.3%)
• Welsh - 661 (1.2%)
• Swiss - 394 (0.7%)
• French Canadian - 392 (0.7%)
• Hungarian - 354 (0.6%)
• Greek - 348 (0.6%)
• Arab - 304 (0.6%)
• Czech - 250 (0.5%)
• Subsaharan African - 199 (0.4%)
• Ukrainian - 176 (0.3%)
• Lithuanian - 155 (0.3%)
• West Indian - 125 (0.2%)
• Slovak - 46 (0.08%)

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/races/races-Santa-Cruz-California.html#ixzz1pPcnYfh1