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I like how you continually refuse to answer questions that are difficult for you...but expect me to answer yours.

But since I’m correct, I have no problem answering yours. Your avoidance of mine just proves my point.

“I’m not the only one who responded to your post questioning your reasoning. Your post elicited several responses questioning your position.”

Ah, an appeal to the majority. Well, if other people believe it, it must be true. Everyone knows that.

“Tell me, please, what rights did people with Hispanic surnames have in the original 13 colonies?”

What rights did a homosexual Laplander in a wheelchair have? How much do we owe to our homosexual, handicapped Laplander founders?

I’m not sure what your point is. Because Hispanics had equal rights, they must be equally responsible for the creation of the very system that gave them equal rights? Which one of the 56 delegates was a Spaniard? The answer is none. Which of the original 13 colonies had a sizable Spanish population? None. The Spaniards were the ENEMIES of the British, and therefore the enemies of the colonies. So while all the raiding and killing was going on...how do you think Spaniards were received? I’ll give you a hint...about like a newly arrived German circa 1942.

The Dutch created South Africa. There was nothing there before they arrived. Black Africans (now) have equal rights in South Africa. Therefore, Black Africans must have founded South Africa. Is that how it goes?

“Do you think there were ANY folks in the original colonies that had Hispanic surnames?”

A lot of the folks in the original colonies had African surnames. Did Africans found the US? Nice strawman, however. I’ve never said that there were zero Hispanics. Just that they didn’t found the colonies, they didn’t run the colonies, and they were a tiny, tiny minority. They were also the enemies of the colonies. So you tell me...how many do you think there were?

Since you obviously believe that there were more than a few, and that they held influence...why don’t you share some Spanish place names from New England?

You might find one or two. Now contrast that with California, or any of the Spanish controlled areas.

A reasonable person could infer from the lack of Spanish place names in New England/the 13 colonies that the Spanish had a level of influence that approximates the number of Spanish place names.

Just like you could infer that since in California Spanish place names are quite common, even prevalent, that they exerted considerable influence there at one time.

Now go off on another tangent.