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Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by Tiger Beer
In the DC area, if someone is Latino, is it generally assumed they are El Salvadorean?
Seems like El Salvodoreans outnumber other Latino groups by quite a bit in the DC area.
Well, in my experience usually Salvadorans are a little lighter in skin color than other Central American latinos and much lighter than Caribbean Latinos. Now this isn't always true, for example my best friend who is Salvadoran is actually more brown than most white Latinos I see.
But I would say most in the DC area generally assume El Salvador or Mexico.
Yeah, I would assume Salvadorean. Depends on skin color as a previous poster alluded too. I'm Dominican, and it's easy for me to pick out other Dominicans by the way they talk. Puerto Ricans too.
Something about Salvadorans being given "protective status" by Reagan or Bush I. We were involved in their civil war down there and messed up the country real bad that a lot of the salvadorans moved in this immediate area (I guess to be closer to the President).
It's kinda weird b/c you go to NYC and the working class latinos are mostly mexican. The same if you go to parts of N. Carolina or Delaware (working in poultry processing plants).
Something about Salvadorans being given "protective status" by Reagan or Bush I. We were involved in their civil war down there and messed up the country real bad that a lot of the salvadorans moved in this immediate area (I guess to be closer to the President).
It's kinda weird b/c you go to NYC and the working class latinos are mostly mexican. The same if you go to parts of N. Carolina or Delaware (working in poultry processing plants).
True. But NYC, generally anything but Mexican. Usually Carribbean - Puerto Rican, Dominican, etc.
Looking up Latino statistics in DC, I was surprised that for pretty much every zip code throughout DC, that El Salvadoreans have the highest percentage among the Latinos.
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