Word: carrancista
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symbol. By an ironic twist, the sergeant's song became the favorite of Pancho Villa's men, not of Carranza's army, where it was born. For years, a guitar-strumming mariachi had only to play Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans...
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