Feature Story
August 11, 2001

"California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave. They should go back to Europe." Mario Obledo, co-founder, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) Listen

Valley's Mexican population booming
People of Mexican ancestry flocked to the San Fernando Valley during the 1990s at a rate seven times higher than the rest of the city in pursuit of better education, housing, jobs and their ancestral roots, new U.S Census Bureau data show.

While the rest of Los Angeles' Mexican population grew less than 3 percent during the decade, the Valley's grew by more than 57 percent to just over 370,000 people of Mexican ancestry. More.....


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