There are a lot of White or mixed White Latinos. Probably the same number or maybe as the Native American-race Latinos at this point, maybe even more.
They identify as Latino on Census as well.
Every “Latino” from Argentina, Uruguay, maybe even Venezuela are straight up White. Probably the highest chance of a Latino being non-white is if they’re from Ecuador. Even Mexico are full of mixed Mexicans.
Spain, Portugal, etc. Some Romanians and Italians classify themselves as “Latino”.
If you go by paternal haplogroups (the paternal line, tge oldest male ancestor, the direct male ancestry, the father of your father…) more than half of the so-called Hispanics or Latinos are descended from Spanish/portguese cacs. Most of the time, the racial mixing was between white men from Spain and Portugal and local Indigenous women or African women(imported slaves from west Africa)
That’s why the paternal line of most Latinos is European and their maternal line is either African or Indigenous. Their oldest male ancestor comes from Europe meanwhile their oldest female ancestor comes from indigenous America or Black Western Africa. Because during colonial times, there weren’t many pure white women in the Spanish colonies of South America. There were some white women there but still the white male to female ratio was clearly much more in Favour of the males. The Spanish/portuguese colonization was not a colonization of settlement like in North America or Australia. They just exploited the rich natural resources on these lands with the help of slaves (mineral resources like gold, iron, silver and agricultural resources like sugar cane, wood, cotton, tobacco, tomatoes, corn, potatoes )there instead of literally creating a new Spain or Portugal like the English colonists did up here with Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada. Most of The Spaniards and Portuguese conquistadors/explorers didn’t bring their women, children, and entire families in the American colonies. The only white population there (Spanish folks born in Spain who came to Spain to rule and manage the colonies, the great landowners/natural ressource exploiters, and Creole population ( white folks born in Mexico, Colombia, etc) was outnumbered by mixed breeds of all kinds, pure native Indians, and pure Africans.
By the way potatoes, tomatoes, sugar cane, tobacco and corn come from the new world(Americas) before columbus no one outside america knew about these native foods of the American continent.