Frogleg wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:28:37 -0600, Arri London >
> wrote:
>
> >Here in NM, anyone who isn't Hispanic, Asian, Black or Native American
> >is normally referred to as 'Anglo'. It isn't a reference to a particular
> >nationality. It means she was white, which she was.
>
> In 'Red Sky at Morning,' Richard Bradford's novel based on a somewhat
> fictionalized 1940s Santa Fe, a character says "We only recognize 3
> kinds of people in Sagrado: Anglos, Indians, and Natives."..."But what
> about the Negro?" "I already explained that to you. He's an Anglo.
> That is, he's an Anglo unless you're differentiating between him and
> an Indian. Then he's 'white.'"

LOL that wouldn't work any more. The Black community would tend to
resent being called Anglo.