The question of the “racial” breakdown of the “Latino/Hispanic” category is an insight into the Liberal Psychosis unto itself. Who decided that it’s an “ethnicity” and not a race? In 1977 Jimmy Carter’s OMB convened a star chamber to try and figure out how to count them so as to maximize the % of the total pop. that comes out “white”. They generated a memo that to this day governs this typology. I see the strange way this operates in the schools in a now-majority Mexican county in Calif. (If you ask them what they are that’s what they usually say they are). You should see the parents puzzling over the form that tells them to check a race box after they check the ethnicity. Only a miniscule % actually are white (Spanish-Euro ancestry alone) but if they don’t check any box that’s how they get counted! (the rational solution would be to have a “Central/South Am.Indian” box but that threatens the primacy of the NORTH Am. Indians.
