It depends. Look at how Paul Castellano and most of the NY mobsters thought about Hispanics. Then you also had plenty of Hispanics who worked with the mob. I don't think the Italian gangsters think they're the same as the Hispanics. Italians are closer to Caucasians than they are to Mestizos.
The reason the California mobsters were closer to the Hispanics is because the AB didn't become a force until much later than the Mexican prison gangs. The choice was between aligning with the blacks or the Mexicans.
Actually the AB was much more of a force during those times Coppola and those guys were teaming up with eme cause most of the leaders were not put in the SHU or 24 hour lockdown yet. Although they are still a force amongst prison gangs sticking a lot of the leaders in solitary seriously curtailed them enough to allow other groups such as the nazi low riders, pen1 and dirty white boys to become prominent.
