First of all, most of latinos are hispanic. Being Brazilians the largest group of latinos that are not hispanic but ibero-americans.
Second. They were not forced. Isabel of Castille prohibited slavery 500 ago and made marriages between Spanish people and natives legal. Most of the people that went there were men and their kids would inherit their last name.
Thid. There are a lot of latinos that emigrated from Spain and lived there for centuries and they keep their last name.
If they don't want to use accents, that's their decision, but stop making up stuff.
Are they a real identity, or were they created for the US census as a form of red lining?
What is "hailing" from anymore, someone whose born to a south american family, whose an indingious south american family?
But I would say I don't write my name in proper accents and I don't know anyone else that do, but I dont' care about accents, the question of the labeling and who created the label is more interesting.
Dropping accents is just vernacular.
Latinos are people who hail from Latin America - the kind of people that had Hispanic last names forced on them at some point in history.
Makes sense to me why they can't be arsed to write their own names with "proper" accents.