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You are going about this 'scientifically'. It won't work. Not unless all these mestizos are willing to have DNA testing. The fact is that mestizos are of indian and spanish blood lines. Ten percent of Mexico's pop is 'pure' indian. The word 'castizo' is no longer applicable as nobody is genuinely anything. Cholos?? This term is NOW used to identify people of Mexican descent born outside of Mexico and who live with one foot in Mexico and the other in the USA and that term has also lost its original meaning. And what/why does all this matter in the 21st century????
The fact of the matter is that a substantial number of those identified as "mestizos" are of predominantly Amerindian racial ancestry, and the attempt to depict them as anything else is likely motivated by an attempt to conceal the dispossession of the indigenous American population, just as certain fools identify Palestinians as Jordanians. For example, refer to Genetic admixture and diversity estimations in the Mexican Mestizo population from Mexico City using 15 STR polymorphic markers:
The 15 AmpFlSTR Identifiler loci D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, vWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818 and FGA were analyzed in a sample of 378 unrelated individuals from Mexico City, Mexico. Significant deviations from HW equilibrium in 14/15 STR loci alleles were not detected. The D18S51 locus had the highest power of discrimination (0.970). Genetic admixture estimations revealed a 69% of Amerindian, 26% of European and 5% of African contribution.
Their inclusion into the Amerindian race is not unsound, considering their resemblance to Amerindians and parallel inclusion of African-Americans into the black race despite their possession of a minority amount of white blood. Moreover, illegal immigrants are typically of far greater Amerindian ancestry than Mexico City residents, obviously.