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The Spanish speaking people in what is now the American southwest were white colonists from Spain and later some mixed Spanish and native Mexican people (mestizos). It was a province of New Spain, what is now Mexico. Even today they speak a Spanish that is more like older version of Spanish from the 1600s and called themselves "Spanish". The first settlements were in 1598. Santa Fe dates from 1610.

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