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Have We Underestimated El Paso All Along?
Unless you’re an El Pasoan or a sojourner who has visited the downtown museum that richly captures the city’s complex history, you probably wouldn’t know that it’s been a hell of a century for Texas’s sixth-largest metropolis. Numerous recent scholarly works have begun to detail El Paso’s neglected epic legacy: There have been legendary riots; spiritually inspired insurgencies; flu epidemics amid revolutionary fervors, conspiracies, and intrigues; and blistering immigration crackdowns, mass deportations, and scourges of violence against Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and others who were seen as foreign. At least a few wars—the Mexican Revolution, the long war on drugs, the war on terror—have left a deep impression.Few days in the city’s history, though, have reverberated as profoundly as August 3, 2019, when a white supremacist drove…The post Have We Underestimated El Paso All Along? appeared first on Texas Monthly.