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The ethnonymMexicanAmerican is the usual term of self description for people with strong ties to both the United States of America and Mexico.
MexicanAmericans account for 64% of the Hispanic or Latino population of the United States.
The proximity of the two countries, a continuous influx of new arrivals, concentration in predominantly Mexicanbarrios and colonias and Spanish-language media enable Mexicanimmigrants to maintain ties with relatives in Mexico and the Spanish language to a degree not possible for previous immigrant groups with their respective countries of origin and native tongues.
Americans were already in California, coming by way of the California Trail, and American ships had been exchanging goods for hides and tallow along the coast of California.
Taylor ignored Mexican demands to withdraw to the Nueces and began constructing a make-shift fort (later known as Fort Brown) on the banks of the Rio Grande opposite the Mexican town of Matamoros.
In 1846, the Mexican territory of California was thinly populated, with small and scattered settlements of both Spanish-speaking Californios and Hispanos and English-speaking immigrants, and both were outnumbered by the Native American populations.
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