It comes out that my use of coconut to describe those Mexicans that thought like the gringo was correct, brown on the outside and white on the inside.
In those days, the vast majority of the Latinos here in Texas or the United States were people who came from the land mass immediately south of the US/Mexico border. Now, not so much so as many recent arrivals hail from countries south of Mexico.
Even the Cuban, Ted Cruz, who is as MAGA as one can pretend to be, does not do as well with the MAGA white party. Cruz is white with a Spanish surname; his mother was white. His father also lacked the pigmentation that Mestizos almost have, a natural tan.
Does this mean that Latino Republicans are ashamed of their ethnic origins and would rather be white? Yes, in an ideological sense.
… Latino Republicans aspire to be the kind of Latino who thinks that racial and ethnic minorities—especially Black people—”complain too much;” who think that women should be “seen, not heard;” who believe we are being overrun by “lawbreaking illegal immigrants;” who feel that homosexuals and transgender individuals are “unnatural aberrations,” and so on. It is an ideological thread that connects all of these opinions together. Research showed that Latino supporters of nativist candidates like Donald Trump share a worldview that—among other things—denies the continued prevalence of racism in the lives of many Latinos and other people of color, despite wide evidence to the contrary. Source