What the hell are you babbling about?
Baitball Blogger is insinuating that Governor Ron DeSantis is pretending to be Hispanic. Kind of like the Pretendian from Massachusetts or Kammie who is half-Indian and raised Hindu, but identifies as black. But what might be learned from W'pedia's bio of DeSantis,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis#Early_life_and_education :
DeSantis was born 44 years ago in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Karen DeSantis (née Rogers) and Ronald Daniel DeSantis. His middle name, Dion, extols the singer Dion DiMucci.[4] His mother's family name, Rogers, was chosen by her grandfather upon immigrating from Italy.[5][6][7] All of DeSantis's great-grandparents immigrated from Southern Italy[nb 1] during the Italian diaspora.[13] His parents and grandparents were born and grew up in western Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio.[4]
My emphasis. Whether "DeSantis" was changed from something else or was Southern Italian regional usage that
Baitball Blogger is ignorant of, I can't say. What is clear is that Gov. DeSantis' father had the family name "DeSantis". Thus
Baitball Blogger's insinuation is,
unsurprisingly, entirely false.
The article says that DeSantis', "great-grandparents immigrated from Southern Italy during the Italian diaspora." "Italian diaspora" was a term not familiar to me, so I checked it out. The first Italian diaspora, which the great-grandparents would have been part of, was roughly from the unification of Italy through the rise of Mussolini
*. Southern Italy becoming part of Italy came late in the unification history, and involved battles. It was not exactly amicable. I'm guessing DeSantis' great-grandparents came to the US some time in the 1880s or 1890s.
* One of my uncles came to the US in the 1920s. Whether he was literally fleeing Musso or that just happened to be the opportune time, I don't know. My paternal grandparents were Volga German farmers who fled Russia, knowing that the coming Communist revolution would bring them nothing good. Ironically, their one daughter who had been born in Russia was the one who married this man who left/fled Italy. Over time, this uncle sponsored over much of his family.
Anyway, Baitball Blogger's ignorant sneer is false, unsurprisingly.