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Entry: War of the Babies--When Modern Warfare and Demography Square Off, Demography Wins Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/war_of_the_babies_when_modern_warfare_and_demography_square_off_demography#26113 Post contents: <i>There are some things wrong with this. First, both Mexicans and the Mexicans here are becoming more Indian. Mexicans in Mexico city are about 2/3 Indian. And anyone who has seen the latest crop of immigrants in Southern California knows that they are a lot shorter and darker than Mexicans of two or three generations back—those tended to come from Northern Mexico, while now we get them from the Indian heartlands. And I totally ignore Guatemalans. So your base is wrong. </i> The top three sending states in Mexico in 2000 were Jalisco, Michoacan, and Guanajuato. These are all central or central-western Mexican states, which is where the majority of Mexican immigrants have always come from. Jalisco is actually one of the whitest states in Mexico. None of them belong to Mexico's Indian heartland. There has been a recent upsurge in Mexicans coming from heavily Indian states like Veracruz, but they remain the minority. It will hearten you to know that in 2000, the northern states of Chihuahua and Durango combined contributed 10,000 more emigrants to the U.S. than the heavily Indian State of Veracruz--despite the fact that Veracruz has nearly twice as many people as Chihuahua and Durango put together. I think people notice the Indian-looking Mexicans more because they are more different, but plenty of the old school looking Mexicans that one sees are fresh across the border themselves. Sent at: 2008 07 04