No they didn't.
"In the United States, a White Hispanic or White Latino[17] is a citizen or resident who is racially white and of Hispanic descent. White American, itself an official U.S. racial category, refers to people "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa" who reside in the United States.[18]"
White Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zimmerman is a white Hispanic, MSM didn't make that up or the term.
from the 2000 census -
White;
Black or African American;
American Indian or Alaska Native;
Asian; and
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
Islander.
For respondents unable to identify
with any of these five race categories,
the OMB approved including a
sixth category Some other race
on the Census 2000 questionnaire.
The category Some other race
is used in Census 2000 and a few
other federal data collection activities.
As discussed later, most respondents
who reported Some other race
are Hispanic. For definitions of the
race categories used in Census
2000, see the box on page 2.
Table 1.
Population by Race and Hispanic Origin for the United
States: 2000
Race and Hispanic or Latino Number
Percent of total
population
RACE
Total population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,421,906 100.0
One race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274,595,678 97.6
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211,460,626 75.1
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,658,190 12.3
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,475,956 0.9
Asian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,242,998 3.6
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander . . . . . . . . . 398,835 0.1
Some other race. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,359,073 5.5
Two or more races. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,826,228 2.4
HISPANIC OR LATINO
Total population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,421,906 100.0
Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,305,818 12.5
Not Hispanic or Latino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246,116,088 87.5
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf