Dominican diaspora

[6] Dominicans mostly started to migrate to the US and Spain after the assassination of Rafael Trujillo, the authoritarian dictator who ruled from 1930 to 1961.

[9] Dominicans are predominantly mixed with European (specifically Spanish), African, and some indigenous Taino ancestry.

Dominicans usually do not classify themselves as white or black like in the United States, but rather they identify with their nation, culture, and language.

[10] Many Dominicans of predominantly European descent have ancestry from the Canary Islands and Andalucía, due to the immigration of people from these areas of Spain to Latin America.

[citation needed] The majority of Dominicans have at least partial African ancestry, which comes from the Atlantic slave trade.