Correct. If you live in Miami you see such attitudes displayed openly.
As far as PR is concerned, I've seen demographic/biological data that shows that 60% of Boricua are "of color." Judging from the folks that I've met on the island or on the mainland, that sounds about right. The average Puerto Rican has more European blood than African blood (unlike Dominicans, who generally are the reverse), but, nonetheless, about 40% can be characterized as "pure white" according to most studies I have seen on the island.
"The average Puerto Rican has more European blood than African blood (unlike Dominicans, who generally are the reverse), but, nonetheless, about 40% can be characterized as "pure white" according to most studies I have seen on the island."
I would guess that less than 20% of residents of Puerto Rico are "pure white," but yeah, around 35%-40% are overwhelmingly white and would be considered white in Europe. At least 95% of Puerto Ricans have Caucasian blood (PR has very few pure blacks and no pure Indians) and I would guesstimate that around 80% have some African blood (but, as you said, most of this group has more Caucasian blood than African blood).
As for the DNA studies showing large percentages of the population of Puerto Rico with Indian blood, I don't believe those for a second; the fact that the patrilineal and matrilineal lines give such different results proves my point. The Taino Indians in Puerto Rico were pretty much exterminated by the Spaniards by 1600 or so, and while there had certainly been some intermarriage between Spaniards and Tainos in Puerto Rico, most Puerto Ricans at the time were of purely European or African ancestry. In fact, the Spaniards stopped listing "mestizo" as an option in its censuses in Puerto Rico at some point, and brought it back in the 19th Century only after mestizo immigrants from Venezuela and other former Spanish colonies started moving to Puerto Rico. The people conducting the DNA tests have a set agenda---"proving" that the Tainos had a greater influence on Puerto Rico than they really had---and thus seek out people from the Maricao region (where Taino bloodlines survived) with high cheekbones as their "sample."
In truth, the three cultures that made Puerto Rico what it is today are the Spaniards, Africans and Americans, with other groups, such as the Corsicans (probably the largest group outside of Spain and Africa to emigrate to Puerto Rico before 1898) having a greater impact on Puerto Rico than the Taino Indians. The truth is the truth even when it hurts.
As far as PR is concerned, I've seen demographic/biological data that shows that 60% of Boricua are "of color." Judging from the folks that I've met on the island or on the mainland, that sounds about right. The average Puerto Rican has more European blood than African blood (unlike Dominicans, who generally are the reverse), but, nonetheless, about 40% can be characterized as "pure white" according to most studies I have seen on the island. Puerto Rico was 50-55% white +/- under Spanish Governance in its Censuses. The present 80% "white" claim of the 2000 Census is based on wannabe status, and a desire to not be seen as black, given what Puerto Ricans observe of American culture. The demographic shift in self-idenitification took place mostly between 1910 and 1940.