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View Poll Results: Which city in the US has the strongest Mexican influence
Los Angeles/Long Beach 12 17.91%
San Antonio 9 13.43%
El Paso 26 38.81%
Houston 0 0%
Dallas/Fort Worth 0 0%
San Diego 1 1.49%
New York City 0 0%
San Jose, CA 1 1.49%
Austin 0 0%
Laredo 4 5.97%
Fresno 0 0%
Tuscon 2 2.99%
Brownsville, TX 8 11.94%
Denver 0 0%
Corpus Christi 0 0%
Alberquerque 3 4.48%
Las Vegas 0 0%
Bakersfield 0 0%
San Bernadino/Riverside 0 0%
Yakima 1 1.49%
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-26-2013, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Hollywood, CA
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In population and overall cultural influence of the city? There's a lot of strong contenders for the title.
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Old 02-26-2013, 10:47 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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San Antonio or Los Angeles?
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Old 02-26-2013, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Chicago- Hyde Park
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El Paso, LA, San Antonio, etc.....almost any city close to Mexico with the exception of Chicago which probably has the most Mexican influence east of the Mississippi
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Old 02-26-2013, 11:05 AM
 
Location: The Mid-Cities
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El Paso, LA, San Antonio, etc.....almost any city close to Mexico with the exception of Chicago which probably has the most Mexican influence east of the Mississippi
Probably some border town in Texas or New Mexico like Las Cruces. Big cities would be either San Antonio, El Paso or LA.
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Old 02-26-2013, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Cumberland County, NJ
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El Paso, TX
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Old 02-26-2013, 11:14 AM
 
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Strangely not LA. LA has a super high % of folks of Mexican heritage, but a huge proportion are second, third or older generation, so most speak English as first language and are fully Americanized. It's amazing how many have limited Spanish. I'm Latino and speak Spanish to them, and they respond in English.

I would say El Paso, or whatever random town directly on the border.
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Old 02-26-2013, 12:19 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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El Paso, might as well be in Mexico except has a better housing stock and cleaner than Juarez across the border.
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Old 02-26-2013, 12:23 PM
 
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El Paso, might as well be in Mexico except has a better housing stock and cleaner than Juarez across the border.
I read some interesting articles about how since Juarez became a warzone in the last decade a lot of the middle and upper-class residents fled to El Paso--which made the city even less "Chicano" and more "Mexican". It's proabably the closest thing in the US to a sizeable almost purely Mexican city within our borders.

I'm not sure if El Paso always had a Mexican majority, but it was much less of a melting pot historically than San Antonio, which had influences from the US South and sizable black and German populations through history.
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Old 02-26-2013, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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El Paso, might as well be in Mexico except has a better housing stock and cleaner than Juarez across the border.
yep that's why I voted for El Paso.
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Old 02-26-2013, 12:55 PM
 
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El Paso, might as well be in Mexico except has a better housing stock and cleaner than Juarez across the border.
Yep,
took the words right out of my mouth.
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