It appears it comes from the Pew organization from figures they presented as being up to date in 2004.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/spec ... index.html

I totaled up the 2004 figures, state by state and got a total of 10,646,500.

We know that even two years ago these figures were skewed as they were only based on guesstimates at the time, coming from an organization that already exists for the benefit of Hispanic people.

I've been looking for a state by state list for a foundation and at least this gave me a starting place. Now add two years and maybe 15-20 percent more to each state and you have a number more realistic that the media should be quoting rather than the paultry 11,000,000 figure.

Any better mathmaticians out there have at it!

(I know what Judy has said before, and I tend to believe her figures more that what I've shown above)