“By the way, the population of Arizona in 1900 was 122,931.”
I’ve read that at the time of the Mexican War, there were about 35,000 Anglos, a few thousand Apaches and Comanches, and 4,000 Mexicans living in what is now Texas. Mexico made all these claims to enormous areas in the West, but never really had many Mexicans living there.
I bet that population of 1900 Arizona was 80% Anglo. It’d be interesting to have those population figures for the entire area at the time of the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. In those days the land went to those who lived there, not those who claimed it from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
I think it wasn’t until 2000 that the census even counted Hispanics as a separate category.