"Less than a decade after Los Angeles residents had seen the border between
the United States and Mexico redrawn to leave them inside the United State
s, Californios had become strangers in their own land," writes a media anal
yst. "They looked for guidance. Some found it in the words of Francisco P.
Ramirez, teen-age editor of the first Spanish-language newspaper of Los Ang
eles, El Clamor Publico (The Public Outcry).".