. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... LOCATION OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLESIN THE UNITED STATES THE Spanish-speaking group in the UnitedStates is made up chiefly of Mexican, Mex-American, Spanish, South American and WestIndian elements. Of these the Mexican andMex-American groups are the largest and forour present purposes the most important. The Mex-Americans (often called SpanishAmericans) consist mainly of those individualsor their descendants who became a part of ournation through the acquisition
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... LOCATION OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLESIN THE UNITED STATES THE Spanish-speaking group in the UnitedStates is made up chiefly of Mexican, Mex-American, Spanish, South American and WestIndian elements. Of these the Mexican andMex-American groups are the largest and forour present purposes the most important. The Mex-Americans (often called SpanishAmericans) consist mainly of those individualsor their descendants who became a part of ournation through the acquisition of territory bythe United States. They reside chiefly in the Southwest. Theirlanguage is Spanish. Many of them can neitherspeak nor read English. I. f Their religious and moral conceptions havegrown out of an environment and traditionsquite different from our own. Ignorance, superstition and prejudice are ob-stacles to be overcome. In the states of New Mexico and Arizona wherethe percentage of Mex-American population isparticularly large the percentage of illiteracywas in 1910 nearly three times greater than thegeneral average of illiteracy for the entirecountry, the percentage of illiteracy among thewomen of New Mexico over ten years of agebeing Texas and California also havelarge Mexican populations and IMexicans areto be found in varying numbers in many otherstates. The total number of Mexicans in the UnitedStates is perhaps conservatively estimated ata million and a half. A recent report from the Atchison, Topeka andSanta Fe Railroad indicated that it had morethan 14,000 Mexicans employed on its lines,mostly in track work. During the war the demand for common laboron the farms of the Southwest led to thetemporary admissi
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