   You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.  A
new survey released today gives fresh insight into the nation's
growing Spanish-speaking population. There are now 50 million
Latinos in the U.S., making up 16 percent of the total
population. The Pew Hispanic Center asked a sampling of them
questions about culture, social attitudes and life in the U.S.
And as NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports, the survey began with
a simple question.  KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: What do you
call yourself? The Pew study asked people of Spanish descent
from around the country whether they preferred Hispanic, which
the Census Bureau uses, or Latino. Fifty-one percent said they
had no preference one way or the other. For those who did, 33
percent preferred Hispanic to Latino's 14 percent. Mark Hugo
Lopez, the center's associate director, says it's not the name.
It's where you're from that counts.  MARK HUGO LOPEZ: More than
half of Hispanics overall say it's the name of the country of
origin of their families or th