Mexican faces abound.
The staccato of Spanish fills the air. Old American cars rumble through the streets on bald tires, their license plate frames festooned with red, white and green Mexican flags. It feels like Mexico. Poverty, crime, unemployment and teen pregnancy often are associated with such communities. But the future of these towns doesn't have to be grim, according to the authors of the report, which examined 330 California communities where Hispanics are the majority population.