ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the issues that arise from multiethnicity and considers the barriers to communication the populists discovered in their efforts to achieve multiculturalism and the role the pluralists played in encouraging wider participation in the project. It addresses the more difficult issue of racism as it is raised in the multiethnic environment of the corridor. The very existence of multiethnicity in the project coupled with its location within the racial state gives rise to the question of the existence of racism among the corridor population. The issue of structural racism is more complex, but by the most obvious measures one would have to say that the Latinos received more of the benefits of the project than the Americanos. The traditional group identifies Latinos by their shared culture focusing primarily on the groups' common language. The primary in-migrants have been Latinos from some fourteen Latin American countries who make up about sixty percent of the population.
