[sammyg2]

I went to high school with a girl named Loretta Sanchez.
After college she got married and took her husband's last name, which BTW was not hispanic.
She ran in several local elections and lost every one of them.
the DMC approached her and told her that if she changed her name back to Sanchez, they could get her elected.
She did, they did, now she is a member of the US congress only because so many latino's in her district (Santa Ana mostly) voted for an hispanic name. She could not get elected with a caucasian name, but with an hispanic name she goes directly to congress with no political experience whatsoever. Nice system.