The Hispanization of North America
The Hispanization of North American proceeds apace, as it has proceeded, for the past thirty-five years. It is a large-scale historical event that is dramatically and decisively transforming American society upon many levels, and can only be compared in a superficial manner to the vast importation of slaves into North American between the 17th and 19th Centuries, though its long term consequences will be far greater than the cultural construction and institutionalization of race and racism in American society. It can be called a form of reverse acculturation, and has seen the rise of pro-Mexican and Latin-American interests in the sphere of American society, politics and cultural life. The Reagan years were an especially big boost to this process, as it was during this period of time that American administrative authoritarianism crystallized and realized the republican agenda it had set for itself in the transformation of American society and cultural institutions. In fact, this should be counted as one of a set of contributions to American history by President Ronald Reagan. Illegal immigration swelled to all time highs as Federal authorities literally ignored the problem. This was seen as a great boon to American business who thrived on the illicit importation of cheap labor in circumvention of minimum wage laws designed to protect the interests of the working classes in American society, business from the smallest to the largest, who otherwise expressed no long term commitment or interest to the Hispanic worker beyond the market based process of labor prostitution and brute exploitation. Blanket Amnesty was granted after the fact
The Latino communities in the US have been by far the fastest growing populations in the US, to the extent that it has resulted in a general destabilization of population control in the US and a renewal of exponential population growth in America.
Hispanization of North America has had a tremendous impact on social and cultural life across America, from small rural townships to the largest cosmopolitan centers. The Hispanic population for instance has been the fastest growing population in Alaska, having a dramatic impact on a state whose total population of only a million souls and underdeveloped infra-structural resources. The Federal government has made a organized effort to hide the realities of this process from the American public
Pro-Hispanic racism and ethnocentrism has been not only permitted, along with the demonstrations of communal solidarity and exclusive discrimination in favor of Latin interests, it has in fact been encouraged and promoted in the name of the celebration of diversity. Sub-surface funding policies and screens of social support designed to specifically target latinos on the tax dollar have been in place of several decades. Any criticism of this one-sided state of affairs is met with vociferous accusations of Anti-Latino racism, accusations that demonstrate a projective displacement of in-group/out-group solidarity that is maintained as an ethnic boundary around the Latino community.
The long term consequences of the hispanization of North America are uncertain at this time. The Hispanic community has come to learn that it can exercise and promote its interests within the democratic framework, even if its own intentions are somewhat less than benign or democratic within the American system. It promotes its communal interests aggressively, and is coming to realize a greater sense of organization and purpose through the normal channels of American political life. Its socio-political resources are realized in terms of its rapidly expanding population base.