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Hispanic American Diversity

Hispanic American Diversity
Mexican Americans could vote and hold elected office in place like Texas, and especially San Antonio. Mexican Americans ran the state politics and constituted most of the elite of New Mexico since the colonial times. However, because of the property requirements and English literacy requirements were opposed in places like Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas in order to prevent Mexican Americans from voting. Some Mexican Americans are eligible to vote but were intimidated with the threats of violence if they attempted to exercise their right to vote (Wales, 2000).
Mexican Americans make a large percentage of the population in the United States such as California and Texas, illegal immigrants and Mexican Americans sometimes make up the majority of workers in many blue-collar occupations. Because of their frequent dominance in being restaurant workers, janitors, truck drivers, gardeners, construction laborers, material moving workers, or perform other types of manual or blue-collar labor many of these places with large Latino populations assumed to be jobs of Mexican Americans. Tension has risen in the Southwest U.S. between the Mexican American laborers and the African Americans workers because of the African Americans claimed that the Mexican laborers are advancing further than native-born blacks. In many areas of the United States like the Southwest, Mexican Americans lived in separate residential areas, due to the laws and real estate company policies. This group of laws and policies were known as redlining, and it lasted until the 1950s when it falls under the concept of official segregation. “Huntington (2005) argues that the sheer number, concentration, linguistic homogeneity, and other characteristics of Latin America immigrants will erode the dominance of English as a nationally unifying language, weaken the country’s dominant cultural values, and promote ethnic allegiances over a primary identification as an...