Mexican Americans

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Mexican Americans are Americans by a continental identity of full Mexican citizenship or partial Mexican descent. In 2024, Mexican Americans made up 11.56% of the US population and 57.32% of all Hispanic Americans, with a number of 38,990,058 people. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United States. Mexicans born outside the US make up 53% of the total population of foreign-born Hispanic Americans and 25% of the total foreign-born population. Chicano is a term used by some to describe the unique identity held by Mexican-Americans. The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world (24% of the entire Mexican-origin population of the world), behind only Mexico. Most Mexican American reside in the Southwest, with more than 60% of Mexican Americans living in the states of California and Texas. Most Mexicans Americans are non-Indigenous, but have varying degrees of Indigenous and European ancestry, with the latter being of mostly Spanish origins. Those...

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