Many Mexicans long ago assimilated into new lives in Nebraska, Iowa From: omaha.com
Tagged: Iowa, Mexico, midwest, NebraskaPosted on: May 5th, 2008
Today’s often-heated debate focuses mostly on recent illegal entrants from Mexico, but the 87-year-old Reyes, who arrived as a boy, shows how deep-rooted many Mexicans are in the Midwest.
According to the latest census data:
• Of the more than 130,000 Latinos who live in Nebraska, 78 percent are of Mexican ancestry. And of those, more than half are U.S.-born.
• Likewise in Iowa, about 79 percent of 113,000 Latinos are of Mexican ancestry. Of those, 64 percent are natives of this country.”*
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