Editing Tejanos (section)

{{short description|Texas descendants of Hispanic settlers}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| flag             = [[File:Flag_of_Texas.svg|border|180px]]
| flag_caption     = [[Flag of Texas]]
| group            = Tejanos
| pop              = '''9,530,419''' (people of Mexican origin; 2020 Census)<ref name="census">[https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=B03001%3A%20HISPANIC%20OR%20LATINO%20ORIGIN%20BY%20SPECIFIC%20ORIGIN&g=0400000US48&y=2020&tid=ACSDT5Y2020.B03001 US Census Bureau: Table QT-P10 Hispanic or Latino by Type: 2020] Retrieved July 13, 2022.</ref>
| regions          = [[Texas]] (especially [[El Paso]], [[San Antonio]], and [[South Texas]]), [[Louisiana]] ([[Los Adaes]])
| langs            = [[Spanish language in the United States|Texan Spanish]], [[Texan English]], [[Spanglish]]
| rels             = Predominantly [[Roman Catholic]]
| related          = {{Plainlist|
[[Texas Germans]], [[Louisiana Creole people|Louisiana Creoles]], [[Los Adaes|Adaeseños]], [[Floridanos]], [[Californios]], [[Hispanos of New Mexico|Nuevo Mexicanos]], [[Isleños in Louisiana|Isleños]], [[Cajuns]], [[Native American tribes in Texas|Texan Natives]]}}
}}

'''Tejanos''' ({{IPAc-en|t|eɪ|ˈ|h|ɑː|n|oʊ|z}} {{Respell|tay|HAH|nohz}},<ref name="www.merriam-webster.com">{{Cite web|title=Definition of TEJANO|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tejano|access-date=2021-09-30|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en}}</ref> {{IPA|es|teˈxanos|lang}}) are descendants of [[Criollo people#In the United States|Texas Creole]]s and [[Mestizos]] who settled in [[Texas]] before its admission as an American state.<ref name="tejanoorigins">{{cite book |title=Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio|author=Gerald E. Poyo|author2=Gilberto M. Hinojosa|publisher=University of Texas Press|others=Macquarie University|year=2011|pages=222}}</ref> The term is also sometimes applied to Texans of Mexican descent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains {{!}} TEJANOS |url=http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ha.046 |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=plainshumanities.unl.edu}}</ref><ref name="tshaonline.org">{{Cite web |title=TSHA {{!}} Tejano |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/tejano |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=www.tshaonline.org}}</ref>