Talk:Hispanics and Latinos in California

Largest percentage Hispanic/Latino places in CA

The Imperial valley region (Imperial county and Coachella-Indio) would rank the most Hispanic/Latino in the state. Calexico on the border as well Coachella are 95% each. And Indio with now over 100,000 people is between 70 and 80%. The barrios in Indio lie along Indio Blvd, Jackson St and Requa Ave, but barrios formed in Monroe St/Dr. Carreon Blvd/Arabia St and Burr St/Fred Waring Dr/Clinton St where they use to be mostly Black sections or once largely Anglo until the 1990s. And unincorporated areas south of Indio are 95% down to the Salton Sea, parts of the farmland is the Torres Martinez Indian Reservation. 12.218.47.124 (talk) 18:54, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

In the 1850s, anywhere south of Monterey and Merced, CA was a district for Spanish-speaking Californians, known as the Agua Tibia District, which is like a county. In a few years, it was split into 6 counties and esp. since 1890 after a land boom brought in tens of thousands of Anglo-Americans from the eastern and central USA, 10 counties south of Delano in Kern county. From the civil war (1861-65) to the 1880s (1870s Los Angeles), Hispanics or Latinos became a minority in all CA's counties. 67.49.85.100 (talk) 02:17, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

In the 1980s, only Calexico in Imperial county were both the only Hispanic/Latino towns in CA (the majority being Mexican-American), now in the start of the 2020s, 15-19 counties and 240-250 towns are. California had a humongous wave of Hispanic/Latino immigration to change the state's demographic profile. And Los Angeles city and county each have 45-49% Hispanic/Latino, compared to 20-25% in the 1980s. 2605:E000:100D:C32F:D535:36E4:E77E:8157 (talk) 00:24, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

In the 1970s and 80s, here are the 9 other most Hispanic/Latino areas in the state, all in the southern half: Unincorporated East Los Angeles, Mecca/Thermal, Romoland near Perris and Tecate on the border; and the cities of Coachella/Indio, Oxnard near Ventura and Santa Ana in Orange county. 2605:E000:100D:C32F:3D7E:EF6B:B7F3:A1F4 (talk) 15:48, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

No mention of Bakersfield? Lots of Latinos in Kern County. And what about San Bernardino/Riverside? Millions of Mexicans and Latinos in the region. Gentrification in Boyle and Lincoln Heights area extending into East Los Angeles has reduced the area's Hispanic percentage lately. And a Spanish-speaking majority in the town of Guadalupe between Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo, comparably farm towns in CA are majority Latino. 2605:E000:100D:C32F:99B4:836D:699E:A201 (talk) 23:18, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Hispanic and Latino?

If the words "Hispanic" and "Latino" are synonymous, then the phrase "Latino and Hispanic" are redundant. The way I heard it, "Hispanic" properly refers to people from the island Hispaniola, and is used improperly to refer to all Latinos. Nei1 (talk) 21:16, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@Nei1: If you think that Hispanic and Latino are synonymous, I'm afraid you haven't read even the most basic definitions for either word... The way you've heard it is categorically wrong. Cristiano Tomás (talk) 01:52, 25 December 2020 (UTC)