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ABSTRACT
Since the institution of the Bracero Program in 1942, Latinos (mostly Mexicans) journeyed to the United States in search of temporary manual labor. This economically driven migration continued after the termination of the Bracero Program in 1964 as Latinos from Mexico and South Texas searched for employment opportunities. The Latino population in the Texas Panhandle grew from 173,000 in 1980 to 340,000 in 2010. This new Latino population settled in counties that were predominantly Anglo and replaced some of the departing Anglos who looked for better jobs, mainly in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. This substantial shift in the ethnic composition of the region’s population resulted in a restructuring of the labor market and notable imprints to the cultural landscape. Over the years, Latinos have slowly begun to participate in city and county politics. This quantitative study investigated the impact of Latino migration and population increase on Latino political participation in the Texas Panhandle.
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Notes on contributors
Lawrence E. Estaville is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. He has published 10 books (9 peer-reviewed, 1 commercial) and 52 refereed journal articles and book chapters that encompass a wide range of scholarly research, including papers on Cajuns, Latinos, and Somalis and, more recently, business geography and cancer prevention; books about American homelands, teaching ethnic geography, and Civil War railroads; atlases on Texas water, health, crime, and education.
Edris J. Montalvo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Government at Cameron University. He has over a dozen scholarly publications covering diverse research on Latinos, minority issues in higher education and geography education, and teaching ethnic geography.
Notes
1. In this paper, we use the terms Latino and Hispanic interchangeably.