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With a POD in the nineteenth century, how can we make it so that Italian-Americans, Hispano-Americans, and Portuguese-Americans are all popularly lumped together into one primary ethnic category? Call it Latino or Romantic or whatever. Considering that WASPs often perceived these groups as interchangeable "dagos", and considering that Spanish and Italian have some mutual intelligibility, is there any way that these people might come to identify as a single pan-ethnicity?
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