[honeygrl]

I honestly don't know what the Mexican communities are like in Texas, but in my city they are almost all dangerous. They are almost as dangerous as the government housing ghettos we have. Of course, our city has a huge number of people on welfare that are perfectly healthy and young enough to work real jobs. They are just too lazy to do it and were raised by parents and grandparents who were also on welfare so they weren't raised to learn the importance of providing for your family on your own and being a responsible adult. It is places like my town that creates the bias against Mexicans. Quite a lot of them are on welfare here too. And a large number are illegal as well. I have never understood how illegal aliens are able to get on welfare, but apparently it's possible.

[Churchjack]

I know the major cities like Dallas still have barrios, where the hood mentality may have overtaken community values. But out here in the boonies...

One of the shifts at the factory I work at had a dinner at the local steak house in Ennis. There's a dozen guys on the shift. One didn't show up, but all the others did with wives in tow--and there was only one couple there that wasn't a racially mixed marriage.

I think big cities are just full of crazy people of all colors~