Reply #53: It's not even that. It's a label the census department put

[Cleita]

on people who speak Spanish and could be of mixed race, whether white, African American or Native American. In the last century Asians have entered the mix. So to be hispanic you could be any of those or all of them as long as you look like you should be able to speak Spanish. In my case it's Spanish, French Basque and Amerindian on my mother's side and Northern European and Amerindian on my father's side. We all spoke Spanish as well as English but for some reason or other my dad isn't included in the Hispanic classification. So you can see it's all bull, but that was my point anyway.