That's the first time I ever heard this. Whenever Latino/Hispanic is brought up, Mexican Americans are the first that come to mind (except in Miami and New York City of course). Either way im all for a seperate category for Americans of Mexican descent, if the other Latinos want to alienate those of us of Mexican descent that is
while the upper-middle class Mexicans only go there for college or vacation, the latter as seen as more sophisticated and who are there to better themselves, not to leach-off the systemm unlike the South Americans.