[itsahoot]

I’m Latina-and my ancestors were already in America before there was one

Then you would be Indian, not Spanish.

[Texan5]

Mestizo, if you want to be very exact, rather than PC-like most whose ancestors came from Spain in the 1700’s-Native American + Spanish makes Mestizo. But what is in a label-all are called Hispanic or Latino anyway, unless they insist otherwise.

And pardon me-that should be “The United States of America”, not just America-strictly speaking, the US of A at that time was the thirteen colonies-what is now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, etc was Spanish territory, or New Spain. My ancestors lived and ranched in what is now Texas...

[Texan5]

And, pardon again-”in the 1700’s” should be “before the 1700’s”-they were already in Mexico by the 1700’s, and came to what is now south and west Texas...

[Henry Hnyellar]

Why? Spaniards got here in the 1500s. The USA didn’t come along until 1776.