>many moons ago, mixed with the folk who lived in Mexico =
>Hispanic
>
>and the Spanish AND Portuguese mixed with the folk who lived
>in Central/South America = Latino
>and what is a Latin country?

Latin America as it's generally known is made up of the 20+ former colonies of Spain in the Americas
where it gets murky is whether to include countries such as Brazil and Haiti. It's a continuing debate amongst ourselves because their colonizers also spoke Latin/Romance languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian all fall into the same language group.)

I broke this down twice already as far as self-identification in this post (#3 and #10)

>but they both come from Spain... originally...
>

I'm not anymore Spanish than you are English
since America IS a former English colony