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[[File:Guillermo del Toro by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|144px|Mexican filmmaker [[Guillermo Del Toro]]]]
It is estimated that white peopleEstimates in Mexicoregards maketo up about 47% of the population,{{refn|At least in some cases, the percentages given by Lizcano Fernández in 2005<ref name=Lizcano /> have been used in conjunction with more recent figures for total national population, producing absolute numbers that differ from LizcanoMexico's.}} withwhite estimatespopulation rangingrange from 9%<ref name=CIA-MX>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mx.html#People|title=The World Factbook|work=cia.gov}}</ref> to almost 46.547%<ref>[http://www.conapred.org.mx/documentos_cedoc/21_Marzo_DiaIntElimDiscRacial_INACCSS.pdf "21 de Marzo Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial" pag.7], ''CONAPRED'', Mexico, 21 March. Retrieved on 28 April 2017.</ref><ref name="ReferenceAconapred.org.mx">{{cite web|url=[http://www.britannicaconapred.comorg.mx/placeuserfiles/Mexicofiles/EthnicEnadis-groups|title=2010-RG-Accss-002.pdf "Encuesta Nacional Sobre Discriminación en Mexico”], “CONAPRED”, Mexico|work DF, June 2011. Retrieved on 28 April 2017.</ref> with the later figure, coming from a recent nationwide survey conducted by the Mexican government as a mean to address the problems of racism that Mexicans of mainly Indigenous or African ancestry suffer at hands of a society that favors light skinned, European looking Mexicans.<ref name=Encyclopædia"DISC-RACIAL Britannica}}2011">[http://www.conapred.org.mx/documentos_cedoc/Dossier%20DISC-RACIAL.pdf "DOCUMENTO INFORMATIVO SOBRE DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL EN MÉXICO"], ''CONAPRED'', Mexico, 21 March 2011, retrieved on 28 April 2017.</ref> The majority are of Spanish descent. However, many non-[[Iberian Peninsula|Iberian]] immigrants (mostly French) arrived during the [[Second Mexican Empire]] in the 1860s. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, immigrants from Italy, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, and Palestine also made Mexico their home.<ref name="extranjeros">{{cite web|url=http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/151/15103202.pdf |title=Asociaciones de Inmigrantes Extranjeros en la Ciudad de México. Una Mirada a Fines del Siglo XX |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704104421/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/151/15103202.pdf |archivedate=2009-07-04 |df= }}</ref><ref name="religiosa">{{cite web|url=http://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/pdf/13/art_13_1938_16335.pdf |title=Los Extranjeros en México, La inmigración y el gobierno ¿Tolerancia o intolerancia religiosa? |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327124211/http://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/pdf/13/art_13_1938_16335.pdf |archivedate=2009-03-27 |df= }}</ref> In the 20th century, white Americans, Canadians, Greeks, Romanians, Portuguese, Armenians, Poles, Russians, and Jews,<ref name="religiosa"/> along with many Spanish refugees fleeing the [[Spanish Civil War]], also settled in Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyenespanol.com/espanol/tdih.jsp?day=15329380&month=15329369 |title=Refugiados españoles en México}}</ref>
The people in the central northern regions of Mexico—such as the states of [[Nuevo León]], [[San Luis Potosí]], and [[Queretaro]]—have the greatest percentage of European admixture, at 78.5%, of all the states that have been genetically tested.<ref name="Genetic structure of the populations migrating from San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas to Nuevo León in Mexico">{{cite journal|title=Genetic structure of the populations migrating from San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas to Nuevo León in Mexico.|author=Cerda-Flores RM|display-authors=etal|work=nih.gov|pmid=2055589|volume=63|date=June 1991|pages=309–27}}</ref>
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