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[[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''' is a new English word (Americanism) derived from  a Spanish word that means a person of Latin languages-speaking descent. Latinos, in English, means [[Mexicans]] and other Hispanics of Spanish-speaking 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 [http://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 (Americanism) derived from  a Spanish word that means a person of Latin languages-speaking descent. Latinos, in English, means [[Mexicans]] and other Hispanics of Spanish-speaking 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 [http://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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