re: Hypothetical: Immigrants Take Over Texas

Apparently Brownsville was once 2/3s white American at least. Of course the population was tiny

“The 1850 census showed a population of 519, two-thirds of whom were from the states along the Atlantic seaboard; most of the remainder were Mexican, Irish, French, English, and German.”

During the next two decades, a large influx of Whites from the North served to reshape Brownsville's ethnic structure. Before 1900 nearly half of all those born in the city were the products of interracial marriages, and both Anglo and Mexican customs were widely practiced and respected. The town's new residents, mostly Protestant and White, however, were more reluctant to assimilate, and as a result ethnic divisions began to widen.

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Palestine Texas.. I bet I can find a few

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I’m sure

Probably so. It seems that mostly all the anglos that grew up in the area south of San Antonio have mostly fled after the late 90s. There’s only a few public schools that are even half Anglo. Laredo was also pretty much half Anglo not all that long ago

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During the next two decades, a large influx of Whites from the North

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my dad’s family left Mississippi after the civil war to pick cotton in Texas

In south and west texas the Hispanic population has basically completely assimilated so I don’t see the changing demographics as that big of an issue. The worst part of it is your Anglo kids might get bullied in school. This is outgrown by high school though.

Not sure what the situation is like in the big cities that are not San Antonio. Sure y’all always had Hispanics but the ones y’all have now are mostly immigrants it seems. Very stark contrast from south and west texas. And then you get out of texas and most Hispanics seem to be immigrants.

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And yet somehow they all ended up here after the w

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jobs must’ve been good back then, too

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What a stretch of an analogy here

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Tell me how it's a stretch?

Is this the Santa Anna poll?