GOSIA WOZNIACKA of AP, 8/13/11:
GREENFIELD, Calif. —Down wind-swept El Camino Real, where women in shawls push strollers and old men in cowboy hats linger on dusty benches, farmworkers spill from white contractor buses. From the main drag, it's only blocks to the fields and vineyards that sustain this peaceful town in the Salinas Valley, "the Salad Bowl of the World."
But there's tension in this part of John Steinbeck Country.
Nearly all of Greenfield's 16,300 people are Latino - and yet an ugly conflict has been brewing between longer-time residents and newcomers from another part of Mexico. Established residents say a massive influx of migrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca has changed their city for the worse.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Latino-indigenous Mexican divide stirs Calif. town
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"Ortiz and others in newly-formed community groups complained that the Oaxacan families clustered in overcrowded apartments and garages, threw trash into the streets, thronged city parks, held loud parties. Some urinated in public and were involved in break-ins."
Oh what irony; same complaint we Anglos have had against Mexicans for decades. Now if only they were white people complaining we could call them racists...
Hi KassandrasDuplex,
This drama has been played out in every immigrant community. The more settled and Americanized members vs. newer arrivals.
Yes but we white folk are the only ones who get called racists...
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