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, the oldest male ancestor, the direct male ancestry, the father of your father…) 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 ajcestor. Note that there weren’t many pure white women in the Spanish colonies of South America. There were some but the white male to white female ratio was in Favour of the males. 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, copper, iron, silver and agricultural resources like sugar cane, wood, cotton, tobacco, tomatoes, corn, potatoes )there instead of creating a new Spain or Portugal like the English colonists did elsewhere with Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada.
By the way potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, corn, cane sugar are native foods of evert area of the american continent, north, central and South America. Before Columbus came here, no one outside America knew about these foods.
@IIVI