attackfish

I'm from New Mexico, where the Mexican and Spanish history has left very similar marks. Old Spanish families still try to lord it over, and part of the reason why the old New Mexican Hispanics and recent Mexican immigrants come into conflict is that usually the Mexican immigrants are definite peasant class, and darker skinned. Hell, we still have a functioning Patron system in the North and the Llano. The Pueblo Indians were actually treated pretty well here, because they were seen as almost civilized and were amenable to being ruled by the Spanish, certainly better than American Indians were treated in the rest of the Spanish Americas, and we have a truly huge population of crypto-Jews, and of course, there was the influx of Anglos, but other than that, we have a lot of the same dynamics up here.

I had the last part, but that was for my disability. My small town treated me like a pariah for it. Really big on the victim blaming there.