Chapter 14: The Southwest Border Area: Tricultural Development

The culture, the ethnic diversity and the history of the southwest are similar to those of San Francisco. San Francisco is home to many neighborhoods where one culture plays the dominant role, like Mexicans in the Mission and Italians in North Beach. The different cultures come together and make San Francisco a unique place that attracts tourism.

Mission District, San Francisco

North Beach, San Francisco

San Francisco has large numbers of immigrants from Asia and Latin America. The Bracero Program brought many Mexican labores to California to do manual labor on agricultural land. In 1769 the Spaniards started the Mission program which resulted in the establishment of Mission Dolores in San Francisco in 1776.