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Border Culture

By immigrationprof

The San Francisco Chronicle ran an interesting two-part series the last two days on how Mexican and United States cultures, economies, and futures intersect.  Part 1 notes that jobs created by maquiladoras have drawn not only Mexicans with high hopes to the border, but also U.S. citizens. While the Mexicans fill low-wage assembly line jobs and live in sprawling slums, U.S. citizens take positions in management, design, engineering and shipping and live in new suburbs. Part 2 discusses how the culture of Mexico has melded with the United States’ to create a distinct Tejano culture. Many Texans draw an imaginary demarcation they call the Mexican-Dixon Line, from El Paso east to Houston, which essentially consigns heavily Latino south Texas to Mexico.
See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/27/MNGKPFUQ831.DTL
and
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/28/MNGIKFV3FG1.DTL
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