She herself was almost lost to the tribe for a while, married to a Latino at 17, having two daughters early, living a middle-class Californian life.
Schools in black and Latino districts fare much worse than those in white areas.
He continues this even now, sleeping in children's rooms, cramped Latino households and even more crowded Amish ones, often riding between them on his beloved Harley.
According to a report in October from the Pew Hispanic Centre, 89% of Latino high-school students say that a college degree is important, but only 48% plan to go to university themselves.
A 2009 survey of Latino families around the country whose homes had been foreclosed had similar findings: amid the stress, marriages broke down; family members fell out;
Mobilised by Randy Parraz, a Latino activist, volunteers stood on Mesa's sun-scorched streets and collected signatures.
One demographer has said the 300 millionth person would likely be a Latino boy given current U.S. population trends.
And yet the ensuing debate-with questions asked in Spanish by Latino moderators-might just have cost her that vote, and thus the entire election.
Some studies have found that this factor may explain as much as 70% of the difference in black and white unemployment rates, and may also explain the difference between black and Latino jobless rates.
The only people standing still were some Latino grocery boys smoking cigarettes by a stack of milk crates and, next to them, an old black man with a whitened beard mumbling at the pavement.
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