Mestizos in the United States

Mestizo Americans are Americans whose racial and/or ethnic identity is Mestizo, i.e. a mixed ancestry of European and Amerindian from Latin America (usually Ibero-Indigenous mixed ancestry).

Mestizos

Total population
18,501,942 5.7% of total United States population (2017)
Regions with significant populations
States with a high Mexican American and Central American population such as California, Colorado, Nevada and Texas
Languages
Spanish (including Mexican and Puerto Rican), Brazilian Portuguese
Religion
Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
Related ethnic groups
White Latino Americans, Hispanos, Ladino, Latin American Amerindians, Genízaro, White Latin Americans, Indigenous peoples / Native Americans, Indigenous Mexican Americans, Spanish Americans

Mestizos In The United States Media

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  A casta painting by Miguel Cabrera. Here he shows a Spanish (español) father, Mestiza (mixed Spanish–American Indian) mother, and their Castiza daughter.

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  Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750. The top left grouping is of an indio and an española, with their Mestizo son. This is the only known casta painting with an indio man and española woman.

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  A statue of Gonzalo Guerrero, who adopted the Maya way of life and fathered the first mestizo children in Mexico and in the mainland Americas (the only mestizos before were those born in the Caribbean to Spanish men and Indigenous Caribbean women)

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  Distribution of admixture estimates for individuals from Mexico City (left) and Quetalmahue, Chile (right). The position of each dot on the triangle plot indicates the proportion of European, indigenous American and African ancestry estimated for each individual in the population.

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  Chavela Vargas Mixed-Costa Rican Born - Singer

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  Keylor Navas Mixed-Costa Rican - Real Madrid Goalkeeper

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  Painting of the First Independence Movement celebration in San Salvador, El Salvador. At the center, José Matías Delgado, a Salvadoran priest and doctor known as El Padre de la Patria Salvadoreña (The Father of the Salvadoran Fatherland), alongside his nephew Manuel José Arce, future Salvadoran president of the Federal Republic of Central America.

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  Distribution of genetic ancestry among 441 individuals from Argentina by four major regions.