El Mirage, Arizona SperlingViews

City-Data.com says that El Mirage Az is 68.8 hispanic ( i.e.mexican) and your site says it is 66% white. Both sites sites claim to have census stats and yet they also have a huge conflict in numbers. So I drove thru El Mirage to take a look and saw a lot of mexicans in many parts of El Mirage. Both sites are vague in the way they desribe a mexican as being a hispanic is not very informative either. Good thing this is not a pay site or people would be calling their credit card companies the BBB and maybe even attorneys. Or maybe its just a typo.

California is now predominately non white in population and I lived there for 45 years. I was born there and grew up there as well. You reference a hawaiian as a hawaiian instead of an islander on your site. Then you reference a mexican as a hispanic instead of mexican. Is there something wrong with the word mexican ? We eat mexican food at mexican restaurants not hispanic restaurants. So what is your problem ? 5 states are now predominately non white populated and in recent decades its because of the mexicans. Why are you so weak or stupid you cant even say that ?

Why cant you have a category for mexicans ? They are what they are and they are here to stay. You cant hide people from it! We got so many mexicans even the mexicans are getting sick of the mexicans. I have life long friends that are mexican. I am white german portuguese So. Cal. native US born. And I dont know what your stupid problem is but I wish you would fix it.

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re: - 5/5/2009
Hispanic refers to ETHNICITY, meaning ethic background. RACE refers to the color of your skin (even though there are plenty of variations of that within races). Hence, someone who is HISPANIC is of some sort of SPANISH descent, but not from Spain. That encompasses many people from countries other than just Mexico. Someone can be Hispanic and also be black, or white, or Asian. Their ETHNICITY says they have some sort of Spanish descent, but what that Spanish was mixed with determines the race. While it is true the Hispanic population might be predominately of Mexican descent, it isn't 100% nor is there a need to delineate, as there is no need to delineate "White" from Irish, German, Portuguese or what have you (including SPANISH btw). Not saying it should be or shouldn't be, thank your government for having to pigeonhole everyone!