I think, as Latins who know and love this country, we also have the cultural perspective to see it in a way its more monocultural citizens cannot. It's sort of like Justice Sotomayors's "Latina woman experience", eh? (Sorry, couldn't resist that one.)

America has always been a continent of enormous cultural diversity, from its ancient pre-Columbian past, to the waves of Asian, European and African immigration that have swept over it. One of these waves, the Anglo-Saxon tide that washed ashore in the 17th and 18th centuries, still sees itself as the great and true flood of settlement, relegating all others to accidental visitations of no importance; although they are increasingly starting to look more and more like a few rapidly diminishing tide pools evaporating in the sun and diluted by subsequent tides.

Those of us who still have some of our cultural memory of our origins find no threat in this, we welcome being just another thread in the American tapestry. My family came here a brief century ago, but there were Spanish treading Florida two centuries before Jamestown, and my mother tongue was spoken here and in the West centuries before the grim Puritans arrived on these shores. Place names, missions, and stone forts still testify to this history.
I've Googled myself and seen my namesake in lists of Civil War and Korean War dead, and my father and I both enlisted and served honorably in our birth country's armed forces in time of war. Without the language and the culture I am fortunate enough to have preseved, perhaps I too might have forgotten that my people have not always been here, and more important, that it doesn't matter really if they weren't.

I have a right to be here, and if Ms Palin and her people don't like it, well, they can always move.