Wait, I just re-read your post, and noticed your quotation marks. You’re saying that a lot of white Hispanics in TX answer “white” but then answer “not Hispanic” on the Hispanic question? That’s odd, unless they don’t consider themselves Hispanic because only one of their parents is Hispanic or something). But the people that are most mad at such respondents are the LULAC folks and the like, since they want the Hispanic percentage to be reported as high as possible even if they get there by convincing Sephardic Jews to say they’re “Hispanic” because some of their ancestors got kicked out of Spain in 1492 or by conning Azoreans or other Portuguese into saying they’re “Hispanic.”
The Nazis followed on the far more liberal Weimar Republic!
It turned out that in virtually every case it had been wise of the ancestors to NEVER say they were Jews!