more racially tolerant than their english counterparts.
Californios
What did the first Spanish settlers in the West build there?
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro
Spanish colonists slaved African Americans after American Indians died
The Encomienda system required Spanish colonists to care for the native people.
indois
Missions
Latin colonist born in Spain
it is called the PENINSULARMarvin
Most would belong under Caucasian due to the fact that most are decedents of Spanish colonist or mestizos (mix of Spanish and natives of Mexico), with a few exceptions of pure natives who did not mingle with the Spaniards and a the rare black Mexican who were brought to Mexico in slave ships.
If you mean when the Europeans came to America, then the southwest mainly around the Colorado River.