Located 130 miles from the Mexican border and similarly distant from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the former preeminent Mexican town of San Antonio contains the Alamo, equivocal memorial to American patriotism. With a city population of 785,410 and a metropolitan population just below a mi 11 ion citizens (988,800), San Antonio now ranks as the nation's tenth and Texas's third largest city. Characterized as the most Hispanic major city in the United States, San Antonio is home to a Mexican-American majority of 52.2 percent, followed by 39.2 percent Anglo-American, 7.6 percent Black, and 1 percent other non-White inhabitants.

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