JOHN DAVID GUTIERREZ LIVES in a comfortable house on a treelined street in Austin. His billowy black hair, olive skin and dark eyes proclaim the Mexican blood that came north with his grandparents. His American-born mother and father, fluent in Spanish and English, consider themselves Mexican Americans. John David, who speaks only English, is not quite sure what he is. "I don't know," he says, "I guess I'm a Tex Mex. If my mom brings over a bunch of friends who talk Spanish, I would shake hands and try to say hi. That is all I probably could say to them....
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