[Fiji Hill]

["Anglo" is] Short for English-speakers. This includes, in the case of Texas, many people with German surnames whose grandparents spoke German.

But blacks and Americans of other races also speak English. Why, then, are they not referred to as Anglos?

[Alter Kaker]

But blacks and Americans of other races also speak English. Why, then, are they not referred to as Anglos?

Reporters can either write "non-Hispanic whites" to refer to "non-Hispanic whites" or they can use the shorthand word, "anglo." Don't get caught up on the literal meaning, they're trying to express a concept while saving newsprint.

[RobbyS]

Refers to Americans of European stock, of course. "White" originally mean persons of British descent. ( At the time of the Civil War, Germans-Czechs--Poles--Italians and certainly not Jews and "Syrians" (Lebanese) were not thought to be white, although plenty of southern Americans were mixtures of British and German immigrants from pre-revolutionary times.) IAC. Anglo reflects a language divide rather than a racial one.