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Original Ninfa's on Navigation Boulevard, established by Ninfa Laurenzo
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The city of Houston has significant populations of Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Mexican citizen expatriates. Houston residents of Mexican origin make up the oldest Hispanic ethnic group in Houston, and Jessi Elana Aaron and José Esteban Hernández, authors of "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston," referring to another large Latino group in Houston, stated that as of 2007 it was the most "well-established" Hispanophone ethnic group there.[1] Houston is the third city for Mexican immigrants after Chicago and Los Angeles.[2]
^Aaron and Hernández, p. 335. "Finally, the Mexican community in Houston represents the oldest and most well established Spanish-speaking group in the area,[...]"
^"Why Chicago is Still the No. 2 U.S. City for Mexican Immigrants". Bloomberg.com. 9 October 2014.
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