How many cities and counties in the Southwest have Spanish names? That heritage is everywhere.
Of course, we can’t have a monument to Father Serra, founder of the Missions (almost all of which later became cities), because, after all, he worked to bring Christianity to the native population...
politically mexicans play both sides. They can be spanish origin when they want to claim land for all the years spain was in charge. They can claim mexican offended by euopeans.