Santa Ana is the most Hispanic city in the OC, and that is a good thing when you consider all the fine contributions many legal immigrants, and their descendants have made to the city.
Every year at this time 2 events occur in this city to celebrate MEXICAN Independence.
1 is a parade with groups representing all 31 states in Mexico marching along in front of 50,000 or more spectators, and is supported by the Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana which bills it as "a way to know Mexico without going all the way there." It went from Main and 15th to within afew blocks of downtown, on Saturday.
There is also a seperate Festival, drawing over 200,000 visitors that occurs over 2 days on Broadway, between French and 4th streets.
On Friday night as I waited for my bus home along Bristol at McFadden, the scene was one of noise, and celebration, but nothing like last spring, and the immigration protests.
As a small group of people waved the Mexican Flag on the corner every car in sight honked its horn as it passed through the intersection.
I have no idea how long this went on before, or after, my bus came.
Saturday night I was at Eddinger, and the noise, as flag waving cars came through the otherwise empty intersection, was just as active.
I wonder what would happen in certain countries, with large American populations, if Americans paraded on street corners waving Old Glory, and honking their car horns, on the 4th of July?
Or tried to hold parades, and fesivals as "a way to know America without going all the way there."
I'm just sayin' is all. ;-D
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