The number of immigrants directly from Spain to the US is miniscule. To suggest that their descendants are causing such significant shifts in US census data is ludicrous.
But when the overwhelming majority of immigrants over the past 50 years come from countries whose racial demographics look like this...
(TLDR: Most Central and South Americans are mostly American Indians with small to moderate amounts of European and African ancestry).
...thinking that the the people identifying as "Hispanic" are anything but various flavors of mystery meat mestizos is laughable, even for you.
because there is no such thing as an ethnicity that stretches across two continents and two hemispheres.
That's a new one. According to who? Lol
Whether there is a "Hispanic ethnicity" is irrelevant. It's an identification overwhelmingly used by the above described people, who are overwhelmingly not white, and have changed the demographics of the US.
Best part of your argument is that I bet you didn't even think it up on your own. Probably had it handed to you by some know-nothing social media person you follow, right?
The number of immigrants directly from Spain to the US is miniscule. To suggest that their descendants are causing such significant shifts in US census data is ludicrous.
It's why I've taken to calling them Southlanders. They're from the lands to the south. It cleanly removes the ambiguity.
The number of immigrants directly from Spain to the US is miniscule. To suggest that their descendants are causing such significant shifts in US census data is ludicrous.
What? I didn't say we were being colonized by spain. In fact, my point is that White Hispanics are probably just White people who are saying they are "White Hispanic" because they don't want to think of themselves as white.
According to who?
According to people who are using it interchangeably with "brown".
The number of immigrants directly from Spain to the US is miniscule. To suggest that their descendants are causing such significant shifts in US census data is ludicrous.
But when the overwhelming majority of immigrants over the past 50 years come from countries whose racial demographics look like this...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4177621/
https://bmcgenomdata.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12863-018-0707-7
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4670080/
(TLDR: Most Central and South Americans are mostly American Indians with small to moderate amounts of European and African ancestry).
...thinking that the the people identifying as "Hispanic" are anything but various flavors of mystery meat mestizos is laughable, even for you.
That's a new one. According to who? Lol
Whether there is a "Hispanic ethnicity" is irrelevant. It's an identification overwhelmingly used by the above described people, who are overwhelmingly not white, and have changed the demographics of the US.
Best part of your argument is that I bet you didn't even think it up on your own. Probably had it handed to you by some know-nothing social media person you follow, right?
Just take the L and move on.
It's why I've taken to calling them Southlanders. They're from the lands to the south. It cleanly removes the ambiguity.
What? I didn't say we were being colonized by spain. In fact, my point is that White Hispanics are probably just White people who are saying they are "White Hispanic" because they don't want to think of themselves as white.
According to people who are using it interchangeably with "brown".