To paint with a very broad brush, “white hispanic” is folks with Spanish ancestry and a few other areas, but NOT central/South America (except for Brazil). A lot of it is determined by colonial history (which country controlled which place and when). There are probably a few exceptions or examples I’m leaving out but that’s a loose rule of thumb. It gets murky because who is considered “white” is the result of a social construct. Hence why, for instance, Polish/Italian people are now “white” in the US. They didn’t used to be considered white.
This is actually a decent summary that helps with the tendency to conflate race/ethnicity.
To paint with a very broad brush, “white hispanic” is folks with Spanish ancestry and a few other areas, but NOT central/South America (except for Brazil). A lot of it is determined by colonial history (which country controlled which place and when). There are probably a few exceptions or examples I’m leaving out but that’s a loose rule of thumb. It gets murky because who is considered “white” is the result of a social construct. Hence why, for instance, Polish/Italian people are now “white” in the US. They didn’t used to be considered white.
Racism is stupid.
and the law of the land
Sadly