"What had transpired demographically during the 1980s, therefore, was not an increase in the number of Mexicans in the community as the school records alone suggested, but rather a shift in the composition of the Mexican segment of the
population. It had gone from a population of adult migrants–including those who lived in the community year-round–to one of families. This demographic shift corresponded with the reduction in ethnic tensions that so many residents, both Anglo and Mexican, had perceived and described."
Source: Center for Chicano Studies. Center for Chicano Studies Working Paper Series. U.C. Santa Barbara
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