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Arvin's large Hispanic ( mostly Mexican ) cultural identity is well expressed in store front signs often in Spanish, shops and stores like carnicerias or meat markets, and the residents expressed a strong emotional pull to Mexico, some to Central and South America, and descendants of Basques arrived from Spain as shepherds and vineyard workers also made Arvin their home.

The city developed a reputation as a majority Hispanic community in the late 20th century as a result of high Mexican and Central American immigration ( farm migrant labor ) into a once " all-white " farming community.