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I don't think most Americans even know that Latinos come in as many flavors of skin, eye, hair color as there can be. They are a rainbow.
I have a Mexican great-grandma, so I also have Spanish in me somewhere.
I really need to do a 23 and me.
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Originally Posted by Luciano700
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I've already done an Ancestry DNA. Being half Hispanic, it was very informative.
As far as I can tell, a "castizo" is someone from Latin America who is 75% European and 25% Native American Indian? In other words, a Mestizo? Although, to me, a Mestizo is a mix of Native American Indian, black and white. Well...that's what it means in Puerto Rico.
Melange were almost exclusively from Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia who were part African, part Tribal and part Caucasian.
Like Castizo, the name kind of fell into disuse after the early 1900s, and outside of Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, no one really knew what that was.
You have to remember that before the 1900s, States weren't involved in birth, marriage or death.
Those functions were performed by churches.
Some States were involved in marriages. In Tennessee, up through the 1890s, a marriage license cost $1,500.
Can you imagine paying $1,500 today for a marriage license?
In 1860, the average annual income for Americans was $385.
Now, imagine earning $350/year and paying $1,500 for a marriage license.
Anyway, between 1900 and 1920, States started enacting laws that required counties to record births, marriages and deaths, and a lot of States also enacted laws that barred inter-racial marriages, so being Castizo, half-breed, Mulatto or Melange is not really something you'd want people to know.
$1500 in 1860 = $45,000 today, when inflation is factored in.
According to this archive, it was a refundable $1250 bond, not a fee. The bond was awarded to the wife if the husband was found to be already married to someone else. The bond was typically posted by a bondsman for a fee.
Hispanic is not a race, at least not classified as a race according the the US Census. It's classified as an ethnicity.
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