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Originally Posted by kmaysob
Come on down to az. Hispanic already out numbers whites. When I was in school, they told the kids to speak english in class. Now they're teaching spanish in the class
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Why wouldn't there be a larger proportion of Hispanics versus gringos in Arizona? Seems to me the Arizona Territory was formed from originally what was called the "New Mexico (that's kind of a key word there) Territory" which was taken from Spain/Mexico during the U.S.-Mexican war and solidified by the Gadsen Purchase. With the exception of a few indigenous tribes the area has mainly been populated with immigrants from the area referred to as "Mexico". We gringos didn't come along until the 1840''s and weren't even numerous until the 1870's.
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