After one of these border changes, many inhabitants of New Mexico, Arizona, and even Southern Colorado who were once part of Mexico found themselves to be American citizens. Thus this led to the rise of popular
States like Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona — where there are large Latino populations — boast a variety of names like Garcia, Hernandez, Martinez, and Chavez.And then there’s Hawaii, whose three most-common surnames — Lee, Wong and Kim — don’t even appear in the top ...
with Mexico at the top in number of native speakers. Other Latin countries that have Spanish as their official language are Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and many, many others. Except for Brazil (which speaks Portuguese)...