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industries and economy,”Where irrigation is possible, farmers take advantage of the nearly year-roundgrowing season to cultivate high-quality fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Asdiscussed in the opening vignette of this chapter (see also Figure 2.48),California’s Central Valley is a leading agricultural producer in the United States.• Migrant Mexican workers, often undocumented immigrants and sometimesmere children, supply most of the labor and lower the cost of North Americanfood by working for very low wages.• Information and service industries—high-tech, software, financial, and theentertainment industries (in Los Angeles, for example)—are the most profitableand employ the most people.• On the eastern flank of this region, Austin, Texas, has attracted IT industries,lured by research activities connected to the University of Texas.• From the start of the first decade of the 2000s, residents of Southern Californiaand the Southwest have had to worry about energy costs, congestion, smog

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water: scarcities and disparities,”With rainfall light and increasinglyirregular, water must be imported toserve the dense urban settlements andindustries; agriculture is the mostdemanding water user.• Recently there has been increasingawareness that at present rates ofdevelopment, all of the users will needever more water, but the environment ofthe Colorado River basin cannot sustaineven present rates of water diversion.• Raising the cost of water to users wouldcontrol its use; now it is so cheap thatfew take the trouble to conserve waterbecause it seems almost a freecommodity.- The Colorado River, which flowsthrough some of the driest land in theContinental Interior, is modified bymany dams, reservoirs

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shared culture and economy with Mexico,”Latino culture is gaining prominence in the Southwest and spreading beyond it.As we have seen, large numbers of immigrants are arriving from Mexico, and theeconomies of the United States and Mexico are becoming more interdependentas NAFTA fosters greatly increased trade.• Until 9/11, the U.S.-Mexico border had been one of the world’s most permeablenational borders, meaning that people and goods flowed across it easily (thoughnot without controversy).• Although English and bilingual speakers in the Southwest far outnumber thosewho speak only Spanish, some fear that English could be challenged in much thesame way it has been challenged by French Canadians in Québec. Accordingly

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Resources,”The rich resources of Middle and South America have attracted outsiderssince the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Europe’sencounter with this region marked a major expansion of the globaleconomy.■ Middle and South America occupied a disadvantaged position in globaltrade, supplying cheap raw materials that aided the Industrial Revolutionin Europe and then North America but reaping few of the profits.■ In recent years, countries such as Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, andVenezuela have worked to control their own resources, develop localindustries, keep profits at home, and limit environmental pollution.Meanwhile

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The Andes,”- also known as Sierra Madre in Mexico- A nearly continuous chain of mountains stretches along the western edge ofthe American continents for more than 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) fromAlaska to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America,-It was formed by a lengthy subduction zone, where two oceanic plates—theCocos Plate and the Nazca Plate—plunge beneath three continental plates— theNorth American Plate, the Caribbean Plate

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