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In reply to the discussion: Abbott has shipped 17,000 Hispanics to NYC .... R you fucking kidding me? [View all]LeftInTX
(34,959 posts)Many have origins from Northern Mexico and are old mixed (mestizo). The mixing goes back centuries, that so there isn't as "I get this from Spain and I get this from Native American" (It's all blended. It's more like My nose looks like an Aztec nose..No it looks like a Roman nose..when in fact, no one knows where the nose came from!)
They see themselves as business people, ranchero types, or laborers. These groups of people came here in mass during the Mexican Revolution. My husband's grandfather was a laborer for Southern Pacific RR in Monterrey, MX. When my husband's DNA came back as 50% Native American he was kinda surprised, but when I told someone he was NA, he did not know what to say...He just said, "But I don't belong to a tribe"..LOL Which is true, because the tribes were wiped out in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Northern Mexico is alot like the SW US. Trucks, guns, cattle, heat and drought, beer and cantinas etc. (In the 18th and 19th century, it was "cowboy" country)
They don't have much in common with indigenous which are from Southern Mexico and Guatemala. Very different types of people and very different cultures.