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· Earn less than non-Hispanic white laborers. More likely to live in poverty
*Mexico = Three ethnic divisions: People of European descent c. 10% - tend to be
among the wealtlhy elite
· Pure-blooded Indians about a third of the population at the other end of the
income scale
· Most people people of mixed Spanish and Indian blood
*Mexican Americans =
· The lands ceded by Mexico in 1848 contained only 75,000 Spanish speakers
· For years the border was unpatrolled
· People worked in Texas, but there was no mass migration further north
· Great migration to the US began in the 1960s
· 2011 35.6 mln Mexican Americans about 64% of all Hispanics in the US
· Often begins as a sojourner migration a father or single young man leaves to
work in the US
· Typically most of his earnings are sent home
· Much back-and-forth movement
*Illegal Immigration = About 11.5 illegal immigrants in the US
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