Well, it's not very politically correct, but it has been around a while.

Here's some movie titles 

Titles (Partial Matches) (Displaying 7 Results)  
1. Broncho Billy and the Greaser (1914) 
 2. Broncho Billy's Greaser Deputy (1915) 
 3. The Girl and the Greaser (1913) 
 4. The Greaser and the Weakling (1912) 
 5. The Greaser (1915) 
 6. Tony, the Greaser (1911) 
 7. Tony, the Greaser (1914)

This says it has been around since the 1600s!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/greaser

Wilson

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It can also be a pun on the "wrong-side" of the tracks hoodlum
stereotype of
"Greaser."  See S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, or the movie of the same
name,
starring C. Thomas Howell.  I've never heard the term applied to
Hispanic or
Latin American people. 

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