UN MOMENTO!.. Mr. author of this article; the name not noted as it originated from the (UP). I have interviewed many migrants who happen to have Mexican Roots; not a novelty in California which was once part of Mejico. The assumptions made by the press regarding the reasons why Mexicans did not mind a lower standard of living need AN EXPLANATION! I am certain that if given the opportunity to live on both sides of the BELL SHAPE CURVE most Mexicans would have selected the upper R-10%.
The article reads:
New Migration California's Fifth
The influx of middle western migrants to California during recent years represents the fifth great migration in the state's history, according to a report by George Gleason, executive secretary of the Los Angeles county committee for church and community cooperation.
The new migration, however, is the first of the native, white Americans. The previous immigrants were Chinese, Japanese, Mexican and Filipino, respectively.
The Chinese, in large numbers, were brought in following the gold rush of 1849, Gleason said. They built the railroads and provided cheap labor for mines and farm. Their immigration was cut off by law in 1888.
Filipino Influx in 1920s
Then followed the successive waves of cheap foreign labor. First the Japanese, whose immigration was checked in 1907 and finally stopped in 1924. Japanese were followed by the Mexicans and by 1920 there were 70,000 Japanese and 80,000 foreign-born Mexicans in California. Filipinos to the number of 31,000 were brought in between 1920 and 1929.
"Since 1934, however," Gleason said, "Due to the repatriation of many Mexicans and the cutting off of Filipino immigration, the complexion of the agricultural migrants has literally changed, so that 80 to 90 per cent are now na-...."
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