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MEXICO``````CANADA``````ILLINOIS``````IND.``````MICH.``````ALA.``````MISS.``````LOUISIANA``````ARKANSAS``````KANSAS``````OKLAHOMA``````MISSOURI``````NEBRASKA``````SOUTHDAKOTA``````NORTHDAKOTA``````MINNESOTA``````WISCONSIN``````IOWA``````COLORADO``````WYOMING``````MONTANA``````IDAHO``````OREGON``````NEVADAUTAH``````NEW MEXICO``````WASH.``````TENN.``````KY.``````TEXAS``````CALIFORNIA``````ARIZONA``````Phoenix1,354,000Los Angeles5,932,000LatinosSan Francisco1,000,000``````1,076,000``````2,192,000``````1,959,000``````1,277,000``````2,355,000Latinos``````San DiegoDallas-Fort Worth``````San Antonio``````Riverside``````Houston``````Chicago2,058,000``````0 mi 2000 km^200``````critics, including President Donald Trump, oftenhave cast Latinos as violent gang members, jobstealers uninterested in learning English, andundocumented immigrants who come to theUnited States and have so-called anchor babies,children who are U.S. citizens at birth. Resent-ment about immigration —most of the estimated11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.are Latinos— helped fuel the political shifts thatsent Trump to the White House.Most Latino people in Wilder will tell youthey’ve always gotten along well with their whiteneighbors. Things haven’t changed much since``````Whittier, California,is 66% Latino. As L.A.Latinos prospered,many moved to thisaffluent suburb of87,000.``````Wilder, Idaho, is 76%Latino. The town of1,700 made head-lines for its all-Latinocity council in 2015.``````Trump was elected in 2016, they say. People withroots in Mexico are appreciated here becausethe farm economy couldn’t exist without them.“This has always been known as the Mexicantown,” Adrián González, 40, told me from thefront yard of his Wilder home, a block from a fieldwhere hop vines rise on V-shaped trellises. Hewas born in Texas, grew up speaking Spanish athome and English at school, and came to Idahoto join Mexican-American relatives working inthe fields: “We topped onions, detasseled corn,blocked sugar beets.”A similar need for laborers is reshaping the``````Chicago is 22%Latino and hasthe largest Mex-ican communityin the Midwest.``````Los Angeles is 45%Latino and has the largestLatino population of allU.S. cities. People ofMexican descent makeup 78% of L.A.’s Latinos.``````COUNTIES THAT REORGANIZED AFTER2000 ARE ADJUSTED FOR 2016 BOUNDARIES.``````Houston is 36%Latino; three-quarters iden-tify as being ofMexican origin.El Cenizo, Texas,is 99% Latino. Thetown of 3,300sits along the RioGrande, acrossfrom Mexico.``````San Antonio is55% Latino and isthe largest U.S.-mainland city thatis majority Latino.``````HAWAII``````ALASKA AND HAWAIINOT TO SCALE``````ALASKA``````92 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC