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Anglos usually referred to the Spanish-speaking element as native or, again in a kind of leveling parallelism, as Spanish , never as Spaniards , on the model, probably unconscious, of Anglo , short for Anglo-American . Hispanics who prefer to emphasize cultural ties with Mexico, especially la Republica Azteca, as most in New Mexico definitely do not, may prefer to go by the name of Chicano , which implies political as much as national or ethnic identity.
The city of some 55,000 as it exists today derives much more from the town built by Anglos who have been attracted here since the mid nineteenth century than from the Spanish-Mexican colonists and their descendants who populated the tiny frontier capital for over two centuries previously.
Anglos call it “the Main” and French-Canadians make a nice — and rare — compromise with “la Main.”
Formally correct but pretentious is the street name Camino del Monte Sol , which before it was paved was sometimes irreverently called Camino del Muddy Soil . Then there is La Fonda, the rather famous Harvey hotel that superseded the old Exchange Hotel when the local Anglos woke up to the touristic value of Spanish nomenclature and architecture.
For more than 160 years, since the Anglos arrived in Texas, there has been a culture transfer back and forth across the Rio Grande.