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Originally Posted by edale
Again, I was talking about in the city. Walking around DC, I did not feel like there was a significant Hispanic population. It was hard to even find decent Mexican food in the city.
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But what does it matter? Most of the highly visible Mexican populations in LA aren't in LA proper. East LA and all those ultra-Mexican communities heading east/southeast of downtown LA out to Whittier or wherever, aren't in the city limits. Most of the biggest Asian concentrations aren't in the city limits, but the SGV and OC.
DC proper is like 10% of DC's population, if that. A prosperous city with small geographic limits and large metro (SF, Boston, DC, etc.) obviously won't have most visible immigrant populations in city proper. Half of DC is super-affluent, the other half working class black, and the whole city is expensive, so why would Salvadorans go the city proper?
And, yeah, DC isn't great for Mexican food, as the Mexican population is tiny for U.S. standards. Most working class Latino immigrants in DC are from Central America. Though the differences between, say Guatemalan and Salvadoran cooking and Southern Mexican (Chiapas and Puebla) cooking are pretty minor.