Paisano from "pais" for country or locality
and "ano" for an individual.
So loosely from Latin meaning "a local person"
but in the Americas more specifically:

Reproduced from Vocabulario Espanol de Texas
by Gilberto Cerda, Berta Cabaza y Julieta Farias
University of Texas Press, 1953

Also used as a nickname for the "Roadrunner"
Geococcyx californianus

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