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To: hecht
Because, as Shelomo Alfassa so correctly points out in his article, "Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1870-1938) was the first Hispanic Justice in the US Supreme Court."

Hispanic generally refers to people of Spanish ancestry or heritage. Cardozo was of Portuguese extraction.

21 posted on 06/07/2009 4:58:34 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

So are Brazilians not Hispanic?


22 posted on 06/07/2009 6:27:16 PM PDT by rmlew ( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
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To: Non-Sequitur

there is no distinction between sephardim from Spain or Portugul. Besides Hispania included both


24 posted on 06/08/2009 1:15:06 PM PDT by hecht
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To: Non-Sequitur

there is no distinction between sephardim from Spain or Portugul. Besides Hispania included both


25 posted on 06/08/2009 1:15:13 PM PDT by hecht
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