Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Latino America

See a good article by Kotkin and Hernandez for RealClearInvestigations looking at the role of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. economy. In brief they find Hispanics are more likely than other immigrants to acculturate and intermarry, and are consequently doing better than other immigrants. 

Their findings certainly coincide with my experience, particularly since moving our winter residence to a NV retirement community. The service workers who make the community function are majority Hispanic. Not just the gardeners, cleaners, and store clerks, the manager of my local Wells Fargo is Hispanic. So is a medical specialist I consult. And we’ve a Hispanic US senator named Cortez Masto.

As the authors note, Hispanics often intermarry with locals. The affluent seniors who move here have no kids at home and I’d guess a majority of the children in our public schools are either Hispanic or part Hispanic.

Growing up in SoCal the middle class family across the street in our semi-rural neighborhood was named Lopez. There were kids surnamed Castro, Cordero, and Cardones in my high school class.