BORDER LIFE

LIFE ON THE BORDER SOCIAL CHANGE How was life on the border during the nineteenth and early twentieth century? This was a period of rapid change for Mexicans in both lifestyle and the shaping of the living patterns of settlements. In this article we are presented with a vivid and detailed images of such change that characterized this period. During the late nineteenth century the expanding railroad brought prosperity and economic progress to the nation. …

…Tijuana, Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez quickly began to become extremely urbanized after 1940. Immigration movements in the border regions was an important event in the outcome of how we now live. My self as a citizen of El Paso now know the events that shaped and molded this region to what it has become today. Here in El Paso we have a great Hispanic and Mexican population as a result of such immigration movements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**