Word: mexican-american
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...basic question, whose answer is vital to the poverty war's success, is very much at play in Laredo: how much of a role shall the estabilshed order have in running the program? Laredo is about 90 per cent Mexican-American. It is controlled, as are many South Texas cities, by a coalition of Anglos and Latinos; the latter are often regarded as Tios Tomases (Uncle Toms) by the more dissatisfied Latins. Those who rule Laredo have watched the poverty fight here closely and with some misgivings, fearing political and economic change that could threaten their power...
...harder to find homes for Ne gro, Indian, Puerto Rican or Mexican-American children than for babies born to white Protestant or Catholic mothers (Jewish babies are in the shortest supply). Close to 90% of the children adopted today are white, though about 60% of all illegitimate babies are colored. The average waiting period for a white adopted child varies from five to nine months in Los Angeles to one year or more in New York; but any white couple willing to take a Negro or Indian child is likely to have it arrive so fast that they...
...generally unfriendly climate, Texas' liberal rump flourishes mostly along the state's industrial Gulf Coast, among its Mexican-American minority concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in south Texas, and on some college campuses. As a group, it has rarely been able to wrest control of the state government from the oil, land and financial barons who have traditionally kept conservative Democrats in power. The liberals' chief foe nowadays is Governor John Connally, an old L.B.J. ally, who nonetheless has repeatedly blocked such Great Society-oriented proposals as state minimum-wage and industrial-safety laws...
...campaign lasted the rest of the summer. Each side put out reams of mimeographed pass-out sheets attacking the other, while DiGiorgio was resolutely ignored. One of the best NFWA organizers, a young Mexican-American, was offered $20,000 a year to organize for the Teamsters. He refused and was subsequently beaten, allegedly by Teamster supporters...
...voters were divided into packing shed workers and field workers. The Teamsters had a clear majority of support among the shed workers, most of whom were "Anglos," white Americans non-plussed by the NFWA's spirit of Mexican-American nationalism. Among the field-workers the NFWA counted on the support of most of the Mexican-Americans, but the large number of Japanese and Filipinos working for DiGiorgio were almost solidly for the Teamsters...