Mexicans don't count

Mexicans don't count
   As Hendrickson notes, this was a derogatory expression used by gunmen in the Southwest, suggesting that they kept count of all of the men whom they had killed, except the Indians and Mexicans. Also "Indians don't count."

Cowboy Talk. A Dictionary of Spanish Terms. . 2013.

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