A brief history

The first indications of the existence and everyday use among English and Spanish in the United States occur during the first half of the nineteenth century, following the occurrence of two nations, two cultures and at that time, two opponents.
With over thirty-five million Latinos, America is one of the largest Hispanic populations in the world. From the mixture of Spanish with English, and with origins dating back to 1848 when Mexico sold part of its territory to that country, was born on Spanglish.
The political instability that characterized Mexico's independent life after the war that freed him from the Spanish Crown (1810-1821) was capitalized by the U.S. expansionist interests in a time when the purchase and conquest was still resources for the acquisition of territory by the imperialist nations. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo decreed in 1848 the sale of half of Mexican territory, the present states of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah and parts of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming, to end the American War. One hundred thousand Mexicans who left the north side of the new frontier suddenly became foreigners in their own land.
In this political and cultural rupture is followed by a series of events extending into the twentieth century, and which provide a passive presence of Spanish but ultimately live in this country. A broken Spanish force, dynamic, who had to mutate and adapt to their immediate universe a dimension that was written, read and spoken English. Here begins the merger.
In this flow of historical events that allowed the Spanish to stay here, includes the continued migration of peasants after the ravages of the Mexican Revolution (1910) are forced to move to agricultural activities in U.S. fields (1920). Years later, due to demand for labor by American involvement in World War II, this flow is formalized between the two governments to the agreement Bracero5 Program (1942-1964) In this same period of the twentieth century, the sons of peasants who came to the harvest season and had chosen to stay on this side, gave birth to the first generation of Mexican Americans. Thus arose the Chicano culture becomes more important where the linguistic code switching and mixing terms between the Spanish and English.