In the landmark civil rights case Hernandez V. Texas highlights how attorneys in the legal case developed a legal strategy to argue that mexican americans were a "class apart" and could not fit into a legal structure that recognized only blacks and whites. Why was it important for the legal team to argue that mexican americans were a "class apart"? Why does attorney Gustavo Garcia make it a point to emphasize that members of the supreme court and other policy and lawmakers in the East Coast (Washington and New York) do not understand the problems and discrimination of Mexican American's in the Southwest?