[[Image:Hispanic Demographic.jpg|350px|right|thumb|Latinos at first concentrate to states nearest Mexico (and Cuba), but then diffuse throughout the U.S.]]
[[Image:Hispanic Demographic.jpg|350px|right|thumb|Latinos at first concentrate to states nearest Mexico (and Cuba), but then diffuse throughout the U.S.]]
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'''Latino''' (in the [[US]]) is a new [[English]] word ([[American]]ism) derived from a [[Spanish]] word that means a person of [[Latin]] languages-speaking descent. Latinos, in English, means [[Mexicans]] and other people of [[Latin America]]n descent living in the U.S.<ref>David G. Gutiérrez, ed. ''The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960'' (2004) pp 1-2 [https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-History-Latinos-United-States/dp/0231118090/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190386160&sr=8-1 online excerpt]</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/latinos Latino] Dictionary.com
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'''Latino''' (in the [[US]]) is a new [[English]] word ([[American]]ism) derived from a [[Spanish]] word that means a person of [[Latin]] languages-speaking descent. Latinos, in English, means descentents of the ''[[Conquistador]]s'' of Spanish Conquest (Spanish: ''La Conquista'') living in the U.S.<ref>David G. Gutiérrez, ed. ''The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960'' (2004) pp 1-2 [https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-History-Latinos-United-States/dp/0231118090/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190386160&sr=8-1 online excerpt]</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/latinos Latino] Dictionary.com