My mother spoke Spanish fluently as well, as did all her family, but she was born in Colorado in 1927 and her fater was born in New Mexico in 1900, etc. The treaty of Guadalupe in 1850 gave them their land and they truly considered themselves American....But my father’s family didn’t want him to marry that “Mexican” white girl in 1948 and turned their backs on him when he did. But you know what? My Hispanic relatives were so much more loving than the supposedly “white” ones ever were and my Hispanic Great Uncle was in the Bataan death march and survived.
What I am saying is that this war between the whites and the browns is totally stupido and unnecessary...and we won it in 1850. I am half Hispanic and totally white and American. No one would ever say anyone in my family is brown except if they had been on a cruise to the Carribean!
Had to rant a bit, sorry.
That is me as well.
Half hispanic but totally American to the core.
I stated this in the census.
I don’t claim I am anything but American. That is the truth and all they need to know.