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Thread #101088   Message #2235019
Posted By: artbrooks
12-Jan-08 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
"Hispanic", by the way, was invented by several mid-level Federal bureaucrats back in, if I remember the story correctly, the late 1960s who were looking for a gender-neutral (ie, other than Latino/Latina) word for a specific group. In concocting their definition, they managed to exclude Portuguese and Brazilians...the oral history is unclear if that was on purpose or not. My "Hispanic" neighbors, a few of whom even speak Spanish, would be insulted by the idea that there is such a thing as a "Hispanic voter".