BORDER LIFE
How was life on the border during the nineteenth and early twentieth century? This was a period of rapid change for Mexicans in both lifestyle and the shaping of the living patterns of settlements. In this article we are presented with a vivid and detailed images of such change that characterized this period. During the late nineteenth century the expanding railroad brought prosperity and economic progress to the nation. One of such advantages that the railroad brought was the great speed of mobilization and the new places that the railroad connected to providing the opportunity to mobilize large quantities of labor supplies at one time. Economic growth was in great part due to the availability of a large, inexpensive labor force consisting of foreigners such as Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and Asians. The railroad brought end to the isolation problem, from the rest of the country, that the border region faced. It was due to the railroad t
hat populations also started growing, cities like San Antonio, Texas went from having a population of 12,000 to 53,000 from 1870 to 1900, during this same period Los Angeles, California went from fewer than 6,000 people to and astonishing 100,000. Also this advancement brought a bloom in the migration to the other border regions. The immigr! this deported Mexicans suffered more. They had to depend on charity to fulfill their basic needs as well as their families. The Mexican government attempted to aid the repatriados unsuccessfully. However after the great depression the immigration movements to the border cities began to flourish once more not only in the United States but in Mexico as well. Cities like Tijuana, Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez quickly began to become extremely urbanized after 1940. ation movement was mainly composed of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. These immigrants found themselves reduced to a minority and sometimes deprived of power and property by th
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