So this year, it's back at Scandalos, where it started, and it's Anglos who have stayed away.

NPR: Rock En Espanol Takes Hold In North Carolina

On the one hand, many Latinos are not only citizens but have deeper roots in what is now America than many Anglos do.

ECONOMIST: The Hispanicisation of America

Yet the Republicans are also putting huge store on two Anglos.

ECONOMIST: Enter the Garcias�� Own Party

Many Anglos today can easily converse in Hindi and Bengali.

BBC: Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out?

They are a fast-growing group, although a relatively large proportion of them are below voting age and even those eligible to vote are less assiduous about it than Anglos are.

ECONOMIST: Immigration politics

This, he said, will cause some Anglos anxiety.

ECONOMIST: The Hispanicisation of America

And an increasingly assertive Hispanic caucus, in an increasingly Democratic state, also seems sure to demand better schools and health care for the people it represents, who currently lag far behind the Anglos on any social indicator you care to name.

ECONOMIST: Lone Star rising