Gunner wrote:
Pretty stupid ass gringo thinking for
> someone to reclassify someone who was born, raised and lived as a Mexican
> based on where s/he lived in the Republic Mexico is it not? Or even in the
> SW US where they have lived since before them white boy pilgrims came along.
> You know the saying, You White, You Right.

We sometimes forget that one Hell of a lot of the SW U.S. was Mexico
until the early 1800's. Texas was Mexico until it became an
independent Republic from 1836 to 1845 (when Texas admitted the U.S. to
the Union). It can be truly said that, except for a
politically-contrived line on a map... Texas cooking IS Mexican
cooking. Northern California became a colony of China during the gold
rush... but southern California is just a part of Mexico without
Gringos (there are far more Gringos in Mexico than California).
Arizona and New Mexico are mostly native-American with a limited
Mexican influence (less than they want to admit). The lust for gold
was beaten out by the travel time and lack of desire to keep going
northward, as the Spanish headed north converting and enslaving
"Indians" in the 1500's. Much of Arizona and a lot of New Mexico were
spared and the foods are different.

Basically, it's all Mexican food, though.

Jack