See, the “anglos” weren’t Americans...cuz everyone’s an American!
They couldn’t say that there were Americans and Mexicans because...those Mexican troops were just as American as you and me!
Got it?
It was “Ahn-glows” who we would now be forced to call “European-Americans” or just whites without any nationality tied to them. The Mexican troops would be Mexican-Americans of course, misunderstood and victimized poverty stricken Mestizos who were only expressing themselves the way they can!
The whole world is now hyphenated, just not...the actual Americans.
Most of the Mexican troops in this war wouldve been considered white these days.
I was stationed with the USAF in Sacramento in 1976. A Hispanic Sgt. from our shop invited my wife and I to his apartment for dinner. His family had lived in Brownsville for a few generations right on the river. He told us that wetbacks would come through his Dad's property dying of thirst and they would give them a drink. When we got to his apartment with his newlywed wife he said we were the first Anglos in his home. I said you guys have only been married for a couple of months! He said, no we didn't understand, he was counting his home growing up in Brownsville. They had never had any Anglos at their house, ever.
He married well. His wife was pretty and from a wealthy family in Mexico City. He is an accountant working for the State of California, probably retired now.