The left quarter of this
satellite photograph is Mexico. Few to no crops grow. The Texas side is green
from the Rio Grande to the irrigation canal.
Quemado, Texas sits in the
center between green and gray. Quemado is in Maverick County. The town’s
population was 230 by the 2010 census. Racial/ethnic breakdown** shows the
population at 53.9% White; 2.47% African-American; 42.39% from other races; and
2.06% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 87.65% of the
population.
The demographic on the other
side of the river most likely is near 100% one ethnic/nationality.
Although sitting among green
fields, Quemado is far from rich. Figures from the 2000 census show 48.6% of
families and 51.7% of the total population living below the official federal
government poverty line.
Quemado is poor. People
across the river are poor. The difference is, Quemado citizens are Texan and
American.
That makes all the difference
in the world.
** It is often amazing how the federal government through its insistence that every man, woman and child in the United States must choose a racial and/or ethnic identity, making us separate, insists we all are equal. Separate but equal.
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