"beaner-hopping", "Mexican-hopping"

[Joel S. Berson]

NY Times, March 19, 2010, New England Edition, p. A20, col. 2,
"Teenagers Hunted Hispanics ...":

"They were not in Patchogue looking to go to a party," said Ms.
O'Donnell, an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County. They
were instead "looking for blood---specifically Mexican blood." They
called the sport Mexican-hopping or beaner-hopping, she said.

"beaner-hopping" appears to go back to Nov. 2008, in reference to the
same murder being tried now, and perhaps arose with this incident (I
haven't tried any serious search).  It's in Urban Dictionary in April 2009.

"Mexican-hopping" as a "sport" may be new.  In a superficial
examination of the first 20 hits in Google Web it shows up in the
last 24 hours, plus once in January for this very case (the killing
of Marcelo Lucero; I suspect the defendant used this term in some
reported statement some time ago); for Google News only in the last
24 hours; and for Google Books not at all.  Although it does appear
earlier in the sense of "a Mexican hopping the border".

Joel

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