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Frank del Olmo, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a Nieman Fellow this year, moderated the discussion...
Other Nieman Fellows include Elinor Brecher of The Louisville [KY] Courier-Journal, Frank Del Olmo of The Los Angeles Times, Robert Hitt III, of The Columbia Record, John MacCormack of the Dallas Times Herald, Dale Maharidge of The Sacramento Bee, Michele McDonald of The Virginian-Pilot, Eileen McNamara May of The Boston Globe, Lindsay Miller, a producer with Public Broadcasting Service, William Sutton, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Gene Weingarten, of the Miami Herald...
Still, the sheer size of the potential Mexican electorate cannot be ignored, only analyzed away. "The latino majority on the east side [of the black district]," says Maxine Waters, an assemblywoman, "is still mainly undocumented workers who don't vote." Del Olmo agrees that his people's power is all latent: "The numbers indicate potential. Too many latinos fall back on rhetoric and raw numbers to prove their validity." He thinks that Mexican political muscle may not be flexed until the next century. In the year 2000, according to a study of L.A.'s future just completed by U.S.C., Hispanics...
...band formed by U.S.-born Mexican Americans is called Los Illegals. Avance, a stylish new magazine written in English, has a young, upscale circulation of 35,000. But for every trendy Avance subscriber in L.A. there are at least ten who resist adaptation. Says L.A. Times Columnist Frank del Olmo: "There's a large segment within the legal population who see themselves as Mexicans. They don't necessarily want to stay in the U.S. forever...