Slow down, guys! MY children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren are part of the “Hispanic” group. My late husband was “Chicano” born in East LA. We met in the US Army. His parents were born in Nogales AZ about the time it bacame a state. We are NOT Mexican, we don’t speak Spanish, some are even blonds. Yet we have Hispanic surnames and (except for me) check the Hispanic box on the census form.
The “new guys” from southern Mexico and central America are not going to blend as quickly. It is also wrong to call them “Mexican” because they are Indians with a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish or Mexican culture. Plus there is always with immigration a problem of flooding the lifeboat. If the growing “latino” communities keep growing too fast, then they won’t assimilate. Then ambitious politicians will try to use the unassimilated to force the Anglos to accept new terms.