Jensen concluded that Level I abilities were distributed equally among members of all races, but that Level II occurred with significantly greater frequency among whites and Asian-Americans than among African-Americans and Mexican-Americans.

At certain points in the 1970s, " Chicano " was the preferred term for reference to Mexican-Americans, particularly in the scholarly literature.

Since then, " Chicano " has tended to refer to politicized Mexican-Americans.

* " White ", " Mix " or mixed race people, or the transracial / Passing ( race ) identity issues of Mexican-Americans.

Mexican-Americans do not actually call themselves Norteños.

" Tex-Mex " ( combination of Texan and Mexican ) is a term describing a regional American cuisine that blends food products available in the United States and the culinary creations of Mexican-Americans influenced by Mexican cuisine.

Johnson, who, as a teacher had observed extreme poverty in Texas among Mexican-Americans, launched an " unconditional war on poverty " in the first months of his presidency with the goal of eliminating hunger and deprivation from American life.

These settlers, unlike their ranching predecessors, were not willing to adapt to Hispanic culture and considered themselves superior to Mexican-Americans.

Culturally, the area is home to large concentrations of Americans of South Asian descent ( particularly Sikhs ), Mexican-Americans, and people of varied European descent.

In the 1860s, Mexican-Americans established a string of villages along the river, naming them the Upper, Lower, and Middle San Francisco Plazas.

By 1963, Crystal City experienced a tumultuous Mexican-American electoral victory, as the swiftly emerging Mexican-American majority elected fellow Mexican-Americans to the city council, led by Juan Cornejo, a local representative of the Teamsters Union at the Del Monte cannery in Crystal City.

A new group made up of both Anglos and Mexican-Americans, the Citizens Association Serving All Americans, announced its plans to run candidates for countywide offices in 1964, and won.

Tex-Mex is a regional American cuisine that blends food products available in the United States and the culinary creations of Mexican-Americans influenced by the cuisines of Mexico.

In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Olmos branched out from music into acting, appearing in many small productions, until his big break portraying the narrator, called " El Pachuco ," in the play Zoot Suit, which dramatized the World War II-era rioting in California brought about by the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police.

While a majority of respondents said they could not place the Wisians in the U. S. social hierarchy, those who did ranked their status as quite low, just slightly above Mexican-Americans.

In Texas and California a large Mexican population can be found and within that population are Chicanos or second-generation Mexican-Americans.

A federal lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1975 ended in a settlement with Coors agreeing not to discriminate against blacks, Mexican-Americans, and women.

The most significant union struggle involving Mexican-Americans was the United Farm Workers ' long strike and boycott aimed at grape growers in the San Joaquin and Coachella Valleys in the late 1960s.

The states with the largest percentages and populations of Mexican-Americans are California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.

* South Texas – Heavily populated by Mexican-Americans, who are the ethnic majority, in a region spanning from Laredo to Corpus Christi to Brownsville.

* Denver, Colorado – Colorado has the eighth largest population of Hispanics, seventh high percentage of Hispanics, fourth largest population of Mexican-Americans, and sixth highest percentage of Mexican-Americans in the United States.

According to the 2010 census, there are over 1 million Mexican-Americans in Colorado.

Most self-identified Spanish-Americans in the Southwest differentiate themselves nominally from the population of Mexican-Americans who came after the Mexican Revolution .< ref >

Even though Mexican-Americans composed more than 10 % of the county's population, no person of Mexican ancestry had served on a jury there in over 25 years.

( Cinco de Mayo is more of a popular celebration among Mexican-Americans in the United States than it is among people in Mexico anyway, and is often confused by foreigners with Mexican Independence Day, which is observed on September 16 ).

La Voz de Aztlan (" The Voice of Aztlán ") is " an internet news service for Mexican and Mexican-Americans in the U. S. Southwest and in Mexico.

In the 1950s, the heavy influence of Norteño on the traditional music of Mexican-Americans in southern Texas gave rise to a new form of popular music, called Tejano or " Tex-Mex ", which is often influenced by American rock and swing.

West Lawn is home to many Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and other people of Latin American and Eastern European origin.

This category covers Tex-Mex, which itself is a term used primarily in Texas and the Southwestern United States to describe a regional American cuisine that blends food products available in the United States and the culinary creations of Mexican-Americans influenced by the cuisines of Mexico.

In the 1960s and 1970s, some Hispanic student groups flirted with nationalism and differences over the proper name for members of the community of Chicano / Chicana, Latino / Latina, Mexican-Americans, Hispanics or simply La Raza became tied up with deeper disagreements over whether to integrate into or remain separate from Anglo society, as well as divisions between those Mexican-Americans whose families had lived in the United States for two or more generations and more recent immigrants.

One writer opined that it was Wyman's stand on the council to turn over Chavez Ravine to the baseball Dodgers, and the resulting expulsion of displaced residents, most of them Mexican-Americans, that was " a major — if not decisive — reason " for her loss.

Mexican-Americans have also achieved some degree of political recognition in Chicago, where they make up roughly 75 % of a Hispanic community that also includes significant numbers of Puerto Ricans and immigrants from other Spanish-speaking countries.

He is seen as a hero by some Mexican-Americans for his defiance of what he viewed as unjust laws and discrimination.

Ethnic and economic friction between Mexican-Americans and the valley's predominantly white farming elite manifested itself most notably during the 1960s and 1970s, when the United Farm Workers, led by César Chávez, went on numerous strikes and called for boycotts of table grapes.

In 1970, Dana announced to ten thousand Mexican-Americans attending a cultural pride festival that " after tonight, José Jiménez is dead ," later holding a mock funeral for José on Sunset Boulevard.

He was a board trustee of the Texas Bar Foundation from 1996 to 1999 ; a board director for the State Bar of Texas from 1991 to 1994 ; a board director for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Houston from 1985 to 1991 ; a board director for Catholic Charities of Houston from 1989 – 1993, a board director for INROADS / Houston, Inc. in 1994 ; and a board director for the Association for the Advancement of Mexican-Americans from 1991 to 1992.

In the past hundred years Mexican-Americans have campaigned for voting rights, stood against educational, employment, and ethnic discrimination and stood for economic and social advancement.

Led by Teamsters business agent and cannery employee, Juan Cornejo, five Mexican-Americans, despite harassment from the infamous Texas Rangers, won the support of their community young and old alike who thanks to the protection provided by the Teamsters and PASSO mobilized for electoral victory.

According to the analysis by HapMap project, the rs671 allele of the ALDH2 gene responsible for the flush reaction is rare among Europeans and Africans, and it is very rare among Mexican-Americans.

Beginning in 1971, he served on the House Appropriations Committee for more than two decades and authored a number of bills, many of which were not universally popular, which offered support for groups he saw as disenfranchised ; many of his actions were on behalf of veterans, the elderly, and Mexican-Americans.

* Trevino has established numerous scholarships and other financial aid to Mexican-Americans.

It has a population which includes a mix of Polish-Americans and Mexican-Americans.