I don't know if there is any official policy about this, but here
in Texas they talk of "Chicano" - American of Mexican descent, and
"Tejano" - American of Hispanic Texan descent, those who split off
from Mexico when Texas became an independant country. These are
subsets of "Hispanic", but I don't think the other subsets
(Columbian immigrants, for example) get special names. It's kind of
a fuzzy distinction, because there is a lot of cross-over and
people with families on both sides of the border and so on, but
there are some cultural differences. It's kind of ironic that
Tejanos could be called "immigrants", because they were Americans
for as long as any Texan, and probably have ancestors who have more
claim to the land that anyone.
And speaking of using the proper national-ethnic terminology, may I
point out that not all pale-skinned people are Angles? Many of us
with Pictish ancestry consider the term "Anglo" incredibly
demeaning. It's bad enough what the Scots did to us; now we are to
be treated as non-entities because those bastard Angles and their
Saxon flunkies brutally repressed us for the past 1500 years. And I
know the Visigoths out there feel the same way. I move that we all
adopt the inclusive, non-judgemental term "Gringo".
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