A Regionalization of Mexican Americans in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5125372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas D Boswell, Timothy C Jones |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/214370 |
| OpenAlex | W2076026743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The Hispanic population is the second-largest and fastest-growing minority in the United States. Persons of Mexican origin represent approximately 60 percent of all Hispanic Americans. With increasing numbers and political awareness Chicano Power may become one of the major social movements of the 1980s. The purpose of this investigation is to provide a regionalization Mexican Americans that is designed to highlight critical socioeconomic and spatial differences in this group. Eleven social and economic indicators for sixty-seven areal units were exposed to a factor analysis of the principal components variety. The resultant factor scores were used in a heirarchical grouping to produce seven types of homogeneous regions of Mexican Americans. The analysis will be useful to both academicians and planners in future research dealing with the results of the 1980 Census of Population. (authors
Geography · Political science · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2018 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |