On Sep 22, 11:47*am, wrote:

The only people who may have
called themselves (a variant of) "Mexican" would not have been anywhere near DC
or even in what is now the US.

I don't know about all the rest and I didn't read the speech you
pointed at, but long before Jefferson picked up his pen the Camino
Real ran through "what is now the US", a couple of miles away from my
house...and the generations of folks born here by then were I'm sure
already thinking of themselves as "not Europeans" (i.e, some "variant"
of Mexican).

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HTH,

Jon.