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Originally Posted by JaneB
Don't call people wetbacks, that is just damn rude. Plus Cubans are from Spanish desent, they are not considered wetbacks.
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Since over 125,000 cuban exiles reached U.S. by boat despite Coast Guard attempts to stem the movement they are also often referred to as "wetbacks or wetbags" by many southerners I'd known. It doesn't matter if they are spanish, french or english desent since they reached U.S. primarily illegally (legalized later) by boat they are considered wetbacks by them.