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Enh, this is a continuation of your and my conversation on the other thread and last night. I thought it was a border thing, but you said not in South Texas. So I guess it's more El Paso. Maybe it's more the families who've been there for several generations. Almost everyone I knew growing up had a Spanish nickname. Most people speak at least some Spanish -- you study it from K12, even if you don't have family who speak it. Beto is fluent, like a lot of people in El Paso. And he was called Beto even when he was in high school.
Sorry I'm being grumpy ;(. But it's equally dumb to make fun of "Ted" and "Beto".
I don't know why this bugs me, but I get annoyed when people just don't get El Paso and the mixed culture there.