Guest Post by SSS

“The hunt for truth is the most difficult of human endeavors.” – SSS

I live in the metro area of one of America’s poorest cities, Tucson, Arizona.  Population 530,000, and metro area close to 1 million.  Poorest?  Well, among America’s cities, Tucson is somewhere around the 5th or 6th poorest in the country, depending upon which stats you read.  City crime rates, most of which stem from drug trafficking and gang activity, are among the highest in the state of Arizona, but quite low compared to other cities of its size in our nation.  Yet the probability of civil unrest in Tucson, even on a small scale, is low.  Large scale civil unrest, as we have witnessed in Ferguson MO, Baltimore and elsewhere, is even more unlikely.  Why?

Here are some more facts.  The racial composition of Tucson is White 47%; Hispanic 42%; Black 5%;  Native American 3%; Other (mainly Asian), 3%.  The important figure is 42% Hispanic, most of whom are Mexican-Americans.  The large presence of Hispanics in Tucson, El Paso, and Albuquerque, among many other southwestern cities and towns with a large presence of Hispanics, is a buffer against any serious civil unrest.  And that buffer is built on the Hispanic community’s CULTURE because ………

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