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...state along the Mexican border. Rural areas saw huge growth in Hispanic populations, but so did cities and suburbs. By the end of this year, four of the eight largest U.S. cities may have Hispanic mayors. "It's the only part of the electorate that's growing," says Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project...
...Though Hispanics account for one-fifth of Nevada's population, there are only two Latinos in the 63-member state legislature, and virtually none hold local office in the cities and counties where they are the most highly concentrated. "We're on the ground floor of political empowerment," says Gonzalez...
...them to seek elected office. But no one expects Latinos to show the kind of huge gains that the Congressional Black Caucus made after the 1992 election. Indeed, the boom in the Hispanic population has fostered political tension between the two minority groups. "On issues, we're very close," Gonzalez says, "but power is power." Black legislators in Georgia, a state that saw a quadrupling of its Hispanic population over the past decade, opposed a bill that would expand a minority-business tax break to include brown-owned firms...
...portion of new immigrants are even trying to become citizens. Some Latino politicians blame bilingualism, the cause for which they fought in the 1970s and 1980s, for discouraging assimilation. "A Latino can exist in their own community and never have to learn English to survive," says Texas Congressman Charles Gonzalez. "My fear is that we have not only isolated ourselves, but we have handicapped ourselves...
...Crimson also feels that its next crop of freshmen will make an immediate impact and aid in filling the void left by Micomonaco and fellow departing seniors Stevenson and Auden Gonzalez...