I live in California and I don’t consider Mexicans and Hispanics to be “white”. Not any more.
Without a doubt they are generally all some combination of Spanish mixed with Native American. They run the gamut from pure Spanish stock to pure Indian stock, and everything Mestizo in between. Many appear as “white” as any western European.
Culturally they are not “white” and that is why I do not consider them “white”. When you get cities with more than 50% Mexicans, you get a very different culture than the melting pot of western European whites in most cities.
For that reason, “white” has come to mean “non-hispanic” white and is valid.
the point wasn’t that Mexicans are not different in some ways, the point was the government changed how it defined “white” and that has shifted the numbers a lot more than has actually occurred.
In the 1970’s just after the government decided to start counting Mexicans separate from whites, the percentage of Mexicans was only 5% (this is the only data point we have on how many were here to begin with since they weren’t counted sparately before then). In the latest 2010 census they were up to 10%. So basically, their percentage of the population doubled over those 40 years. Which is pretty impressive until you look at how much the Asian population has grown, which is now 10 TIMES what it was. And yet no one is mentioning the Asian invasion... or that if demographic trends continue.. the country will be majority Asian by ________.