Norteño referred to the Mexicans of Northern Mexico as opposed to Sureño, although anyone from the US is NorteAmericano, since Mexico and Latin America ( Central and South ) long identified themselves as Americanos.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

The city is also home to the Grammy Award-winning Tejano / Norteño group Los Palominos.

Norteño / Conjunto accordion pioneer Narciso Martínez learned many tunes from German and Czech brass bands and transpose them to his accordion.

As a result, many radio stations across the US especially in Texas have converted over to Norteño / Banda music.

In Mexico the term conjunto is associated with Norteño and Tejano music.

Traditional music includes Mariachi, Banda, Norteño, Ranchera and Corridos.

Grupo Bronco is a Mexican Grupero group from Apodaca, N. L .. Bronco's modern take on the Norteño style in the ' 80s and ' 90s helped earn them a number of international hits.

Bandmembers José Guadalupe Esparza, Ramiro Delgado, Javier Villareal, and José Luís ' Choche ' Villareal crafted a sound that paid tribute to the Norteño tradition while incorporating modern instruments like keyboards, as well as a more melodic, pop style with elaborate costumes.

The Norteño stronghold is Salinas, California and most of Northern California.

Norteño emblems and clothing are based on the color red.

A typical Norteño outfit is being flamed up including a red belt, red shoes, and red shoelaces.

In many areas where they exist, they are known to be ruthless in attacks on their rivals which is praised by fellow gang members. A typical group of Norteño gang members

While all Norteño soldiers and captains in California are expected to follow the orders of Cervantes, a small percentage of the gang remains loyal to the former generals and captains imprisoned in Colorado.

Popular music such as Ranchera, Norteño, son music can be heard on many radio stations across the state from the San Francisco Bay Area to Central Valley.

Tucson's music festivals include the Norteño Music Festival & Street Fair, which celebrates the Mexican-American style of norteño.

The term Nortec is a conjunction of Norteño (" of " or " from the North ") and Techno, but mainly describes the collision between the music, style and culture of electronic music with those of norteño and tambora, two music genres indigenous to the North of Mexico.

Love for these styles by the Mexican people later developed into Norteño and Tejano.

In 2009, the category was split into two new fields: Best Norteño Album and Best Regional Mexican Album.

On a 2004 episode of the HBO drama The Wire titled " Moral Midgetry ", Baltimore Police Detectives Jimmy McNulty and Kima Greggs leave Baltimore for Virginia where McNulty derogatorily refers to the southern sheriff as Buford Pusser.

On an episode of the HBO drama The Wire, Baltimore police detective Bunk Moreland derogatorily refers to an African seaman as " Kunta Kinte " during an interrogation in which the seaman refuses to speak English.

Minor informal groupings include the reformist Qinghua clique, and the derogatorily termed Crown Prince Party of officials benefiting from nepotism.

The self-identified fundamentalists also cooperated in separating their opponents from the fundamentalist name, by increasingly seeking to distinguish themselves from the more open group, whom they often characterized derogatorily, by Ockenga's term, " neo-evangelical " or just evangelical.

The term numerologist is also used derogatorily for those perceived to place excess faith in numerical patterns ( and draw scientifically unsound inferences from them ), even if those people do not practice traditional numerology.

Historically, some people among the northern Amhara community used the label " Galla " derogatorily to label Oromos as well as to label Shewan or southern Amharas who were mostly mixed with Oromo.

The term " pilpul " was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting.

The term is often used derogatorily to describe a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor.

In exploring the galaxy, they encountered an alien race known as the Formics, derogatorily dubbed " buggers " due to their insect-like appearance.

Recently the patent assets of these failed startup companies are being purchased by what are derogatorily known as " Patent trolls " who then take the patents from the companies and assert those patents against companies that might be infringing the technology covered by the patent.

* It is also used in modern times to refer ( usually derogatorily ) to the loyal subservient lieutenants or clients of some powerful figure ( with equal imprecision also styled mogul, tycoon, or the like ), in politics or business.

The term is often used derogatorily in academic literature, perhaps most commonly by sociologists, many of whom tend to prefer structural explanations to ones based on rational action by individuals.

Later, crioulos was used to refer, derogatorily, to all people of African ancestry.

While " ghetto " as an adjective can be used derogatorily, the African American community, particularly the hip hop scene, has taken the word for themselves and begun using it in a more positive sense that transcends its derogatory origins.

The badge was popularly derogatorily called Sildesalaten (" the herring salad ") because of its jumble of colours.

The Dutch derogatorily described tulip contract trading as windhandel " wind trade ", because no bulbs were actually changing hands.

In 19th century America, the word " philanthropy " and its variants tended to drift in meaning and importance, generally to be associated with " doing good " and — derogatorily —" do-gooders "— e. g., Thoreau, in Walden.

By extension, the word ghoul is also used derogatorily to refer to a person who delights in the macabre, or whose profession is linked directly to death, such as a gravedigger.

Hawaiian prospectors were derogatorily referred to as " Canucks " instead of the proper Kanaka ( Hawaiian ) by Anglo-American and other prospectors in the Yukon, Alaska.

Hence, political speeches or conventions may be derogatorily referred to as " infomercials " for a specific point of view.

As the Danish government provided food aid to the minority during 1945 – 49 this contingent became derogatorily known as " Speckdänen ", i. e. " bacon Dane ".

Politically, " cronyism " is derogatorily used.

The label ' cornucopian ' is rarely self-applied, and is most commonly used derogatorily by those who believe that the target is overly optimistic about the resources that will be available in the future.

However, the same term can also be applied derogatorily to any foreign military which was an enemy to China.