[manaboutown]

I don't think they are hiding anywhere. On each of my several visits to TV I met and spoke with many Spanish speaking folks, went to a huge party sponsored by a Spanish speaking club and had a ball. BTW, I am an Anglo born in NJ who was mostly raised in NM, learned to cuss in Spanish before English, married and had children with an hispanic lady whose ancestors had settled in Southern NM back in the late 16th - early 17th century. When she had her DNA tested she was surprised to find that in addition to her expected Iberian peninsula ancestry she was 20% Italian, 20% Greek and 28% American Indian! LOL. The first European settlers in what is now New Mexico came from all over Europe, I suppose. Anyway, to me an hispanic is someone whose first language is Spanish, be they from Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, a country in Central or South America, The Philippines or - you name it.