Nice looking ladies.
But that is a photograph, if you look at the ethnic split of California in 1948:
California’s population in 1948 was around 9.7 million
The 1940 Census noted ~6.5% of Californians as “Mexican” or Spanish-speaking, but this undercounted the broader Latino population. By 1950, estimates suggest Hispanics neared 10–12% due to increased migration. Los Angeles and agricultural areas like the San Joaquin Valley had sizable Latino communities
European-Americans were 80% in 1948 due to early 20th-century migration from other U.S. states and European immigration. The 1940 Census reported about 89.5% of Californians as White (including some Hispanics), but by 1950, this dropped to ~86.5% as minority populations grew.
You didn’t answer the question
Many of those “white” kids would be children of reent immigrants, like Sergey Brins children.
Are the children of recent European or Russian immigrants more “white” to you than 3rd generation Hispanics who may be pale skinned like Anya Taylor Joy?
” but this undercounted the broader Latino population “
Oh BS
You’re just peddling the “California is Mehico” crap pushed by La Raza
You’ve never been here, you’re reading nonsense on the internet and then inserting your biases
The census data you’re reading was likely dead on, if anything it overinflated the Mexican population. And most of those people were White Spaniards because that’s who got in legally. LULAC even went to court in the ‘30s to have Mexicans declared White so they would have fewer problems being admitted under the 1924 Act.
In any event, after Operation Wetback in 1954, most of them were sent home. The “minority population” you speak of was mostly black people who moved to California during the War to take jobs that were open since the White men had been drafted to fight yet another dimwitted European war.
Anyone can read the old Census data but you weren’t here, you didn’t live it/see it, and I did. Take if from me, foreigner, your fantasy world of Mexican California was just that.
The so-called “Spanish Period” was a short, almost meaningless hiccup in time when a runt population of a few Spaniards - called Mexicans after the Mexican Revolution of 1811 ended, even though they had no such identification themselves - survived in California and not much more. About all they did was spread smallpox and kill off about 150,000 Indians (feather, not dot) that way.
The whole “Spanish California” story was a fabrication of Harrye Forbes, a woman from Pennsylvania who moved to Pasadena and opened a bell company in 1906 to sell her bells. She promoted the BS that the missions were a day’s walk apart, and had been built sequentially, all of which was a hoax. She also pushed the notion that a road called “El Camino Real” was the creation of the Spanish to connect the missions when the truth was that they were just connected by a patchwork of old native trails. The California Indians would beg to differ with your nonsense assertion that “Dees was Mehico!”: https://removethebells.org/learn/
It was a sales pitch.
There were at most 7000 Californios in California in 1846 when Commodore Stockton took over Los Angeles which at the time had maybe 300 people. They were grotesquely outnumbered by the Indians, estimated at 300,000. That number was halved by the smallpox epidemic which the Spanish knew would happen: it had been the same in Mexico in 1520. That’s the real way they defeated the Aztecs. Figured they could do it again in El Norte.
Modern California is a creation of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans. And some crooked Irishmen up in SF, from whom we get the slick, oily kid named “Newsom”.
From your little redoubt overseas you regurgitate crap peddled by seedy Bolshevikii who we mistakenly let in back between 1890-1924. Maybe you could try to find out a bit of the truth, you know? Move to LA! Buy a house and have Karen Bass burn it down! Then get back to me about how great they all are.
“By 1950, estimates suggest Hispanics neared 10–12% due to increased migration”
Forgot to demolish that crap, too: the “increased migration” you speak of were Braceros, so-called ‘temporary laborers’ brought in during the war...who tried to stay. Until Eisenhower put Joe Swing in charge of INS and pushed 2M of them back home.
Spanish was almost unheard of in 1960 in California, Arizona and Texas. Even NM, which was really only “hispanic” up in the mountains around Santa Fe.