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I recall reading a part of [[National Geographic]] magazine, from the articles on [[Los Angeles]] in the January 1979 issue, referenced to the rise of immigration from Mexico to Southern California. ''What was a trickle became a flood as the tiptoe invasion of Latin American newcomers into Los Angeles is turning the US' 3rd largest city into a Spanish-speaking majority city by the end of the century (year 2000). The development is called "another [[Quebec]]" named for the Canadian province where today French is the sole official language.'' + [[User:Getitstraight|Getitstraight]] 11:08, 14 December 2009 (EST)

I recall reading a part of [[National Geographic]] magazine, from the articles on [[Los Angeles]] in the January 1979 issue, referenced to the rise of immigration from Mexico to Southern California. ''What was a trickle became a flood as the tiptoe invasion of Latin American newcomers into Los Angeles is turning the US' 3rd largest city into a Spanish-speaking majority city by the end of the century (year 2000). The development is called "another [[Quebec]]" named for the Canadian province where today French is the sole official language.'' + [[User:Getitstraight|Getitstraight]] 11:08, 14 December 2009 (EST)

::There is no comparison to Quebec. The immigrants to the US learn English quickly--faster than the Germans, Poles and Italians did a century ago.  1848 does not really play a role today--it's geographical nearness to Mexico that is most important, and that is changing. The 2010 census map will show a large Latino presence in most states. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 11:16, 14 December 2009 (EST)

::There is no comparison to Quebec. The immigrants to the US learn English quickly--faster than the Germans, Poles and Italians did a century ago.  1848 does not really play a role today--it's geographical nearness to Mexico that is most important, and that is changing. The 2010 census map will show a large Latino presence in most states. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 11:16, 14 December 2009 (EST)

::: I think the writer described Los Angeles and California was once Mexican land inhabited by Spanish-speaking residents when the U.S. acquired the region. The uncanny resemblance of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southern Colorado have a long history of "localized native" Latino/Hispano culture, is alike the Francophone presence in Quebec, parts of New Brunswick, Ontario and other Canadian provinces as a result of the British takeover of New France (the French empire). Quebec and Aztlan (the Southwest US) are two similar kinds of ethnic enclavism from a previous colonial era and high cultural expansion.  

::: I think the writer described Los Angeles and California was once Mexican land (which is true) inhabited by Spanish-speaking residents when the U.S. acquired the region. It was based on the Chicano movement at the time when some activists called it their homeland ''Aztlan'', a mythological land of the Aztec and Mexican Indians in the 5th to 9th centuries AD thought to been located in the desert Southwest US.

 

The uncanny resemblance of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southern Colorado have a long history of "localized native" Latino/Hispano culture, is alike the Francophone presence in Quebec, parts of New Brunswick, Ontario and other Canadian provinces as a result of the British takeover of New France (part of the French empire). Quebec and ''Aztlan'' (the Southwest US) are two similar kinds of ethnic enclavism from a previous colonial era and high cultural expansion.  

You're correct on the majority of Latinos are recently-arrived legal (in most part) immigrants in the late 20th century from other nations besides Mexico. The Puerto Rican experience in New York City, Cuban refugees fleeing from Castro in Cuba, and the Central American exodus from civil war in the 1980s & again 2000s for economic reasons, is akin to the classic American experience of immigrants from Europe resettled in the new country and their families adapted our culture. That can mean Latinos will assimilate to the point they won't be monolingual Spanish-speaking, when over 80% of Latinos are bilingual or English-dominant like most 3rd generation Mexican-Americans. + [[User:Getitstraight|Getitstraight]] 15:32, 14 December 2009 (EST)

You're correct on the majority of Latinos are recently-arrived legal (in most part) immigrants in the late 20th century from other nations besides Mexico. The Puerto Rican experience in New York City, Cuban refugees fleeing from Castro in Cuba, and the Central American exodus from civil war in the 1980s & again 2000s for economic reasons, is akin to the classic American experience of immigrants from Europe resettled in the new country and their families adapted our culture. That can mean Latinos will assimilate to the point they won't be monolingual Spanish-speaking, when over 80% of Latinos are bilingual or English-dominant like most 3rd generation Mexican-Americans. + [[User:Getitstraight|Getitstraight]] 15:32, 14 December 2009 (EST)