Thank you, Connie Martinez, 66, for your deep insights into who has a right to live here. What a leftist tool and fool. “Open the doors and left everybody in!”
BTW, you shouldn’t jump to the conclusion she is Mexican — Hispanic surnames have been common in California since the late 1700s. She may be as American as anybody. But, of one thing there is absolutely no doubt — she’s an insane, open-borders lib.
The actual number of Spaniards in California between 1769 and 1846 never exceeded 7500.
Compare that to the number of Indians in 1846: 150,000. And in 1769 that number was 300,000. You don’t hear Ohlone last names all that much today, and yet they were by far a much larger group of people.
The Spanish - later Mexicans because of the 1821 revolution - were a tiny band of nobodies. The number of Americans in the Sacramento valley by 1848 was around 30,000. The Spanish were an even more irrelevant group.
The actual number of descendants from people like Pio Pico, Mariano Vallejo, Francisco Sepulveda and other Californios is exceedingly small and wouldn’t fill a neighborhood in San Jose now. The possibility that some woman in Fresno living in a flea bag apartment complex is a 6th generation Californio is near zero.
Something like half the “hispanics” in California descend from either an immediate illegal alien or are one generation away from an illegal alien.
That is an immense number, in the millions. Virtually all since 1970 when “hispanics” were only 4% of the population of California.
So no, hispanic surnames haven’t been all that common in California until recently. I can remember walking the streets of San Diego in the mid-1960s and seeing virutally none of them.