I always get puzzled by this "Hispanic" or "Latino" racial classification Americans use. If someone from Spain emigrates to the States do they get counted as "Hispanic" or do things like skin colour come into it?
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But back to the topic. Here's a quote from 1836 showing how some things haven't changed all that much. Including the fact that there are always some people who see through the fog of prejudice:

"I too well know it's truth from experience that, whenever poor Gipsies are encamped anywhere and crimes and robberies etc occur, it is invariably laid to their account, which is shocking; and if they are always looked on as vagabonds, how can they become decent people?"

Intriguingly enough, that comes from Queen Victoria's Journal for 29th December 1836. (It is quoted in the new issue of Private Eye, in a letter from "John Gardner, Huddersfield.") (NB At present that link is to the previous issue of the Eyee, since the official publication date for the new one is 15th April, which is when it should go online.)