Dear Pocho: While hard stats on how many half-Mexis speak Spanish are difícil to come by, the U.S. Census's 2011 American Community Survey offers a bit of a clue.

Photographer Ryan Jones spent a month in Mexico, working in Mexico City, and traveling to Oaxaca and his grandmother's birthplace of Juchipila, Zacatecas, on a journey to experience his heritage.