[El Gato]

Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

San Antonio has almost always been a Tejano dominated city. (Not quite, at the turn of the 18 to 19th century there were more Gringos, mostly Germanic but also Scots-Irish, than Latinos, but the Hispanic "flavor" was still evident). In any event, even today when the "Mexicans" far outnumber us Gringos, it still doesn't look like Mexico City. While there are lots of new immigrants, legal and (mostly) otherwise, San Antonio is also known as Military City, USA, and sends a higher percentage of its sons and daughters to the military than most any city of comparable size. We've lost quite a few of those in Iraq, I might add. One was a kid who attended high school just a couple of miles from me.

[El Gato]

18 to 19th

Oops I meant 19th to 20th. That is around 1900.

[Welsh Rabbit]

San Antonio has almost always been a Tejano dominated city. (Not quite, at the turn of the 18 to 19th century there were more Gringos, mostly Germanic...

That would explain why tejano sounds like polka with a Latin flavor...

[missyme]

I live in San Diego Co, and although we are right next to the border the upscale areas on the beach, Rancho Santa Fe,
La Jolla is still predominantly white inhabited by Christians, Jews and Mormons,and of course with the Indian Gaming that is growing by leaps and bounds has given many tribes status of the Who's Who's in the elite areas of California..

[norton]

You are right about San Antonio. You'd also be right to point out that most of the towns south of there have Tejano mayors, chiefs of police, etc. Unfortunately, Buchanan's reference to Lost Angeles is dead on the mark. I've stated here before that there are great differences in the 'hispanic' population of America. I've also stated that mexico is our enemy.

The trick is to convince the legal and contributing 'Americans of mexican heritage' that the old country is just that ... it should NOT be allowed to spring north lest it destroy what they themselves value here.