Mexican is a race?
“Mexican is a race?”
Ask one for yourself they will repond in Mexican Spanish by saying they are La Raza which literally means The Race in English.
Mexicans consider themselves a unique ethnicity and largely a unique race. Given that nearly every native born Mexican is indigenous peoples and Spaniard of 50 to 70% indigenous vs Spaniard by DNA. Only the very small upper class of Mexico is 50% or more European Spanish the vast majority of Mexicans are exactly the opposite of that majority indigenous.
The Spanish spoken in Mexico is vastly different than Spanish in Spain. By population Mexico has more than double the native Spanish speakers vs Spain so arguably Mexican is the dominate language it really should be its own language as Mexican Spanish is heavily laced with Aztec and Mayan words.
Most Tejanos and Texican’s also identify as either indigenous peoples or Mesoamerican Latino aka La Raza and not Europeans at all. Especially the ten plus generation Tejanos who have been in Texas since before the USA even existed or Mexico for that matter it was the Spanish Empire from the 1500s