then again since there's a lot more light-skinned Latinos than Hollywood portrays it's easy for them to be mistaken for dark haired whites.

This could be! I'm married to a Hispanic man and our kids skin color is in between our skin color. I'm very white and my husband is brown but in the summer he can tan darker. Same with our kids, they become pretty pale during the winter months and when summer comes, they just tan, don't really get sun burn, if they do by the next day it's gone and have a tan. I just burn then freckle up, lol. All 3 of the kids have dark brown hair, I use to have a lighter-dark brown hair (now just grey), husband had very dark brown - black hair (now salt and pepper). People always wonder though, what nationality they are. Our kids think it's funny, because no one ever guesses that they are part Puerto Rican, lol. I think it's because their hair is dark and they aren't quite "brown".