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Bookmark or Share- Mexicans in the U.S. | Data on Latinos | Pew Research CenterMexicans are the largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, accounting for 60% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2021. From 2000 to 2021, the Mexican-origin population increased 79%, growing from 20.9 million to 37.2 million.
- History of Mexican Americans - WikipediaMexican American history, or the history of American residents of Mexican descent, largely begins after the annexation of Northern Mexico in 1848, when the nearly 80,000 Mexican citizens of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico became U.S. citizens.
- Mexican Americans - WikipediaMexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. [11] In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. [12] In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United States. [13]
- Latino History - National Museum of the American LatinoBeginning in the 1960s, the Chicano Civil Rights Movement took shape as Mexican Americans fought for civil equality. During this time, leaders like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta fought the unfair treatment of Latinas and Latinos in the United States.
- Mexican America | National Museum of American HistoryMexican Americans have served in U.S. armed forces since the Civil War. But it was the generation of Mexican Americans returning from World War II who mobilized their communities and changed the political landscape of the West.
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