I never thought of myself as Hispanic. Then I moved to the US

A new Pew Research Center analysis asks who counts as Hispanic. For many Mexicans, the answer only arrives after they cross the border — sometimes shouted by a stranger. I was on the phone with my mother — in Spanish, of course — when a woman who was clearly having a bad day shouted “f—ing South American” at me. My first impulse was to correct her: North American, actually. But I knew precision …