Right you are-Latinos/Hispanics in places like LA do not have any similarity but ancestry to me or anyone else I know-the differences are even evident in the TV series on the Spanish language stations at night-the ones that take place in Cali have the people speaking a different dialect from the one here, some of the clothes, and attitudes are different, too.
Interestingly enough, the only series not filmed in the Miami area are the ones that take place in Mexico-those are mostly filmed there. The series that are set in Miami are in yet a different dialect-and the actors talk faster, like Cubans and Puerto Ricans do...
Yep......My fathers side came out of Mexico around 1900...settled in W.Texas and SE NM.
A few here on FR need to realize how things really sit. Nuf said.