[nopardons]

Yes, it's a madeup category, that the damned Dems made up a little while ago and much of the so-called "Spanish" that they speak is nothing but a a patois, which those, from other Spanish speaking nations have difficulty understanding!

It's NOT an "ethnicity"!

It's NOT a singular culture!

It's NOT a race!

It's NOT even a regional grouping! What it is, is a divisive LIE, which is WHY I always put it in quotes, when I use the word.

[Captain Compassion]

Exactly!!

[livius]

Very right in your post #61. The term came out of the black racial movement in the 1960s 70s, when the Dems realized that controlling an “ethnic” block was the way to power. Actually, they already knew that and had long been famous for practically being at the dock to meet incoming immigrants, managing to snag the Irish and the Italians as Dem blocs.

So “defining” and consolidating the various and very diverse people from Spanish speaking backgrounds into a Dem-controlled identity was very important. They couldn’t even figure out what to call this new group at first. Oh - another amusing thing - Spaniards were excluded from this identity.