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Mexican Americans:
Mexican Americans have faced many challenges in trying to become an independent race spanning over 400 years varying from region to region within the United States. While Mexican-Americans were once concentrated in the states that formerly belonged to Mexico principally, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas they began creating communities in San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago and other steel producing regions when they obtained employment there during World War I. More recently, Mexican immigrants have increasingly become a large part of the workforce in industries such as meat packing throughout the Midwest, in agriculture in the southeastern United States, and in the construction, landscaping, restaurant, hotel and other service industries throughout the country.
There is a very wide divergence among language experts on the actual number of linguistic families and dialects among the Mexican Indians, primarily because the definitions of dialect, language group, and language vary from one linguistic specialist to another. What one specialist may deem to be a language, another linguist may describe as a dialect. But dialects themselves are sometimes mutually unintelligible among people of similar ethnic groups.
Mexican Americans could vote and hold elected office in places such as Texas, especially San Antonio. They ran the state politics and constituted most of the elite of New Mexico since colonial times. However, property requirements and English literacy requirements were imposed in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas in order to prevent Mexican Americans from voting. Some eligible voters were intimidated with the threat of violence if they attempted to exercise their right to vote.
Mexican Americans tend to socialize in communities comprised of mainly their own race. They do not have social lives mainly due to their...
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