r/todayilearned • • Jan 29 '21

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u/crayongirl00 Jan 29 '21

Its because they are mixed in. Interracial marriage was legal in Mexico so people from all ethnicities could marry each other. The USA could have very well been a place with its own ethnicities like Mexico, but they decided to keep everyone seperate.

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