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Interesting and true. I've talked to my share of Texican Americans. They're often rabid Dallas Cowboy fans and try their hardest to speak the English language better than native Americans.

Second-Generation 'Texicans' are a complete 180 from the Hispanic population that inhabits lower income neighborhoods of East LA. There, you need to either drive about 5 or 10 miles, or learn how to speak Spanish if you want to buy a whole basket of groceries.

Anyone who thinks that all immigration from Mexico is the same (or anyone who thinks tariffs and sales taxes work any better than the war on drugs) needs to walk along 3rd Avenue, past Catalina St on any warm weekend afternoon.

There they will find an open air black market, selling illegal contraband, counter to every duty or sales tax the US or CA has on the books.

Second-Generation 'Texicans' are a complete 180 from the Hispanic population that inhabits lower income neighborhoods of East LA

Those would be second generation Tejanos. "Texicans" are the Gringo decendents of the likes of Stephen Austin, and some slightly more recent German, Czech and other European immigrants, plus a few Russian Jews whose boats fortunately for them landed in Galveston instead of on Ellis Island.

Where I live in San Antonio, we Gringos are in the definite minority. I was eating with my wife, daughter and her in-laws up near New Braunfalls last week. I looked around at all the blond hair and blue eyes and told my wife "there's too many Gringos in here, makes me nervous" Our waitress looked like she'd just stepped off the boat from Bremershaven or Hannover. Which reminds me, you can hear the german influence on the spoken language in many areas of Texas, even after several generations. A couple of times I'd swear a guy was immigrant, but it turned out that it was his grandfather or greatgrandfather who'd shipped over from the Fatherland. (I'm at least 1/4 Kraut myself, but my ancesters settled a mite farther north, due north in fact)