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Mouais... A super quick search on Wikipedia is enough to show that both Hidalgo and Valls were born to strongly politicized families anyway. And really, it's not too hard for the Spaniards to enjoy upward social mobility when they're deserving, they're not affected by racism. The main concern goes to the French with some African ancestries. You don't see many of them in the political staff yet, while some have been hard workers and deserving to be influential. That's a major concern to our general interests and still an evidence of shameful racism.

From a French perspective, I think those figures just keep testifying of the traditional and cultural Latin proximity between the old Roman Catholic nations sharing coastal regions to the Mediterranean sea. Claiming to be Spanish, Italian or Portuguese is nothing much exotic in France. Millions of us have that kind of backgrounds.