Today, organizations in the [[United States]] use the term as a broad catchall to refer to persons with a historical and cultural relationship with Spain, regardless of race and ethnicity.<ref name="fhwa.dot.gov">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/49cfr26.htm U.S. Department of Transportation |title=49 CFR Part 26 |accessdate=2012-10-22 |quote="'Hispanic Americans,' which includes persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race;"}}</ref><ref name="SBA 8005">{{cite web |url=http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/sops/8005/sop8005-3.pdf |title=US Small Business Administration 8(a) Program Standard Operating Procedure|accessdate=2012-10-22 |quote="SBA has defined 'Hispanic American' as an individual whose ancestry and culture are rooted in South America, Central America, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, or Spain."}}</ref> The U.S. Census Bureau defines the [[ethnonym]] ''[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]]'' to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race"<ref name="census.gov">http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf</ref> and states that Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity.<ref>[http://www.pewhispanic.org/2009/05/28/whos-hispanic Passel, J. & Taylor, P. 'Who's Hispanic?'] Pew Research Hispanic Center 2009</ref> Generically, this limits the definition of Hispanic or Latino to people from the Caribbean, Central and South America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race, distinctly excluding all persons of Portuguese origin.{{dubious|date=June 2015}}