Today, the Southwest Border Area's tricultural complexity lends it its special character. Acculturation (cultural borrowing and sharing among groups) in the Southwest Border Area became more complex when Anglos arrived. The cultural impact of Indian and Spanish groups on the regional landscapes is obvious. Spaniards expanded into the Southwest from their colonial core in Mexico. When they encountered a difficult or different environment, the expansion halted. The aridity of Arizona, New Mexico, and bordering areas in Utah and Colorado discouraged large scale Anglo agricultural settlement in the nineteenth century.
Nowhere else in the world do high-income and low-income societies meet in such close geographic proximity as along the U.S -Mexico border. In 1965 Mexico started the Border Industrialization Program to attract U.S. labor-intensive manufacturing industries to border communities in northern Mexico. For Mexico, this program offered the possibility of jobs for its people.
Like I stated in an earlier bog, the book states that large retirement communities have sprouted in the desert. One main attraction in Lake Havasu City, Arizona is the London Bridge, where it arches over a newly created and artificially maintained waterway. This is one landmark people remember from Lake Havasu.
In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London placed the bridge on the market and began to look for potential buyers. On 18 April 1968, Rennie's bridge was sold to the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch of McCulloch Oil for $2,460,000. When casting his bid for the bridge, McCulloch doubled the estimated cost of dismantling the structure, which was $1.2 million, bringing the price to $2.4 million. He then added on $60,000, a thousand dollars for each year of his age at the time he estimated the bridge would be raised in Arizona. His gesture earned him the winning bid.
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