[WackyKat]

Spaniards (New Mexico),

My cousin taught school in the New Mexico mountains and said that some of the people there spoke formal Castilian Spanish-using the vosotros form and pronouncing "z" as "th"- and had light hair, eyes, and fair skin.

As the descendents of the Conquitadors,they were rather contemptuous of Mexicans

[FITZ]

From what I've seen they still are ---- a lot of New Mexicans will proudly tell you they've never been to Mexico and never will go there ---- they have no connections to that government --- and many are descended from Spaniards and or SW-USA Indians ---- they never came from south of the border but maybe some of their Spanish ancestors came up through Mexico.

[BeerSwillr]

as is the current class of politicos in present day mexico