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Mexicans went where there were jobs available to them. At first they stayed in states that previously belonged to Mexico, such as California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, because they are close to home and with large populations of Mexicans so it's familiar to home.

It didn't take too long before Latinos started to settle outside of pre-Mexican states, the United States has always preferred to have Mexican labor so there were jobs for them everywhere.

Note that Mexicans were not thought of as immigrants, the territory taken from Mexico came with the package of Mexican people that lived on it. Mexicans at first were thought of as normal Americans, they didn't start to be thought of as immigrants until many years after the pre-Mexican states were established and fully mixed with the rest of the country.

Although Mexicans were not the only Latinos that immigrated to the United States, they are the most relevant because of the fact that they were the only Latin country that had territory taken from them, which made it much easier to identify where the biggest concentration of Latinos were settling at first.

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Lessie Jones

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