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Krazy_Kirby posted...

if by "frrom Latin America" you mean born in a different country, that will never happen

I was assuming they meant "of Hispanic descent", and just phrased it in an odd way.

Especially since there's an argument to be made that most Hispanics are just Native Americans anyway, in a sense. While the French mostly ignored local natives and the English/English-descended Americans went with the policy of killing most of them and taking all their stuff, the Spanish mainly just interbred with the natives and forced them to convert to Catholicism. Most Hispanic people in South and Central America probably trace their family trees back to at least some pre-Colombian natives.

Which is why I often like to point out that when people complain about how Hispanics are predicted to be the majority population in the US by 2050, in a way it's just the original natives moving back into their old lands and taking them back from the people who stole them in the first place.

(Though it's obviously more complicated than that - but historical demographics usually are.)



Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Does the birthplace have to be USA at the actual time of birth, does it have to be USA at the time of running, or both?

If you're born in Ontario tomorrow, and the US conquers Canada next week, you're still technically not born in the US.

But US borders aren't all that likely to expand any time soon, so that's probably not really a factor.