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I am Portuguese American and I do not consider myself hispanic no one in my family has ever used that term and neither does a majority of portuguese americans. Label “hispanic” http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/defining-hispanic.html The Census Bureau added the “Hispanic” query at the last minute at the insistence of President Nixon, who astutely saw the large number of Mexican-Americans in his native California as an indicator that Hispanics were becoming an important voting bloc. Today, except at the Library of Congress and the Small Business Administration, the consensus tends to be that Portuguese-Americans are not Hispanic. “I personally do not classify Portuguese under the `Hispanic’ or `Latino’ label, and I would say the majority [of Portuguese-Americans] do not as well,” says Jason Moreira, executive assistant of the Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States. Stop with the label nonesense and get back to the issues.All supreme court judges should be voted in by the people!! Sonia Sotomayor 2001 lecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Referring to former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s saying that “a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases,” Sotomayor said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SCOTUS/story?id=7685284&page=1 Do you not see that quote by her is the real issue?and blog worthy than her being “first hispanic” And because of this my feeling is Republicans and Democrats have failed this country!instead of talking about real issues that effect all LEGAL americans the rats scramble for nonsense topics. http://www.ronpaul.com (one of the last real Americans )limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies!!!!!