5 Feet of Fury

‘In Albuquerque one can really see the difference between the Siesta culture south of the border and the more dynamic Anglo culture’

This is exacerbated in that the Anglos in the state have normally been brought in as part of the Federal Government’s various military and military-industrial projects.

The Anglos there are thus fit, highly intelligent, highly disciplined, and highly motivated. This contrasts with the Hispanic culture a great deal.  (…)

It wasn’t until I moved to a nearly all white part of America that I realized just how low-class the thieving was in New Mexico. In the school’s hallways, fights broke out all the time. Again, I didn’t see so many violent educational distractions in the Mid-West. Even Little League Baseball is corrupt. My fellow Anglo 5th graders played against Hispanic teams that must have been filled with 18 year old “children.”