Hispanos

This article is about the descendants of Spanish and Mexican settlers in the US South. Not to be confused with Hispanic, the English translation of Hispano. For other uses of the term, see Hispano (disambiguation).

Hispanos (from Spanish:adj. prefix Hispano- relating to Spain, from Latin:Hispānus) are people of colonial Spanish descent in what is today the United States who retained a predominantly Spanish culture. The distinction was made to compensate for flawed U.S. Census practices in the 1930s which used to characterize Hispanic people as non-white.