Mexican-origin and the USA - a (somewhat depressing) #Visualization
From The Economist , On February 2nd 1848 [...] An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, plus parts of several other states, was handed over to gringolandia . The rebellious state of Tejas, which had declared its independence from Mexico in 1836, was recognised as American soil too. But a century and a half later, communities have proved more durable than borders. The counties with the highest concentration of Mexicans (as defined by ethnicity, rather than citizenship) overlap closely with the area that belonged to Mexico before the great gringo land-grab of 1848. Some are recent arrivals; others trace their roots to long before the map was redrawn. They didn’t jump the border—it jumped them. For a history of the Mexican (as part of the wider Hispanic) experience in America, I can't recommend Felipe Fernández-Armesto's book Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States highly enough. He is a Spanish historian at Th...