We wuz Americans n shiiiiet.

It is an interesting article and well written and lain out. This is consistent with the history of Santa Fe, NM. Many of the early business owners and city fathers that built and developed the city were conversos that came up from Mexico. Immigres from the Spanish Inquistion and the great diaspora of 1492. They went first to Central America, then came north.

Throughout the SW as far north as Pueblo, CO, hispanic families unearth Jewish religious artifacts (prayer shawls, menorah, etc) that belonged to their grandparents or great grandparents. They recognize them as religious artifacts, but may or may not recognize their significance (personal experience)

The point being that conversos travelled further and had greater influence than commonly understood. And as the article points out, Jews and Moors made it to the SW long before western European caucasians, with the exception of Spaniards (non-moorish Spaniards are technically caucasuans).