That’s wrong. The Spanish discovered Florida.
No, actually, that's right. Everything else that the tags imply is wrong.
What do Hispania and Britannia have in common?
They were both the names of Roman provinces with "Hispania" referring to what is now the entire Iberian peninsula and Britannia referring to what is now England and Wales.
Throughout the entire course of European History since the Roman Legions arrived in the Iberian peninsula in 218 BC during the Second Punic War, "Hispania" has been synonimous with "Iberia".
In Central and South America itself, the term "Hispano" is reserved for those things that relate directly to Spain.
Only in the U.S., in the past 30 years or so, has European History been turned upside down so that "Hispanic" is now used as a Politically Correct codeword to mean a mestizo of Aztec, Mayan or other Amerindian descent.
The Mexican mestizos themselves have absolutely no problem with calling a mestizo a mestizo and, in fact, that is what "La Raza" ("The Race") refers to: the "Mestizo Race".
Why is it that, in the U.S., the term "mestizo" must never be used?
Mestizos never discovered Florida for Western Civilization but the subjects of the "Hispaniarum Rex" sure did.
