saltyshinysylveon:mapsontheweb:Old Mexico lives onThe counties with the highest concentration of Mex
saltyshinysylveon:mapsontheweb:Old Mexico lives onThe counties with the highest concentration of Mexicans (as defined by ethnicity, rather than citizenship) overlap closely with the area that belonged to Mexico before the great gringo land-grab of 1848. Some are recent arrivals; others trace their roots to long before the map was redrawn. They didn’t jump the border—it jumped them.Or as Eva Longoria put it, I think, the US moved into Mexican land, not the other way around. -- source link