Was there ever a middle class in Mexico and if so, where did it go? The USA?

Answer 1

All you are so ignorant, of course middle class exist in Mexico, I am not rich at all but I do not consider my self poor either I have a BA degree I am going to study a master, I was renting an apartment not living with my parents, all my friends are in the same conditions, we are not spoiled as many of you could think, we are very hard workers, we wake up very early in the morning to go to the office working 12 hrs daily, 10 hrs minimum, cos who works from 9 to 5 is because works is a government office, I pay taxes every month, middle class is the only support of this country because of course the rich people do not pay taxes (that is why they are rich) and of course the poor paying taxes would be completely wrong.
I do not have a car cos I think in Mexico city is easy to move by metro and bus. We want a better country we want a better condition of life, and us the middle class is who have the power of change it, us middle class is who suffer of kidnapping, yes you do not need to be rich to be kidnapped, rich can pay bodyguards, we don't and we don't have the money to pay the ridiculous rescues..
But we are working people, going to University, opening small business, and trying to do not become poor. It is difficult but not impossible.

Answer 2

Part of the situation is that you can be college-educated and still be poor in Mexico. Machismo, compayerismo, in short, tradition, holds Mexico back. Actually in Bajacalifornia I saw a growing middle class, but people were more likely to buy a satellite dish than be connected to the internet, so I would say I forgot one: naquismo.

Actually Mexico exports its poor, even its educated poor. Mexicans favor tradition over innovation, and the tradition of exporting its undesirables as a sort of payback for losing the Mexican American War, is a long and venerable one.

I think we need to use ' reverse psychology' with Mexico.
-Accredit their Universities: Once the educated start to emigrate legally they'll say 'wait a minute we want to give you the scum, not the cream.'
-We should have anchor babies there and drive up their real estate
-We should allow more legalized immigration and put the coyotes out of business, that way we can also weed out the criminal/terrorist element.

For real though, the middle class is alive and well sipping Tequila in La Paz.

Answer 3

Since the late 1800's there has been a "Middle Class" in Mexico, but extremely small in number by our standards.
Surprisingly, in spite of the rampant illegal immigration into the USA, the middle class in Mexico is growing at the highest rate in their history.

Answer 4

To put it short...no there is no middle class in Mexico and there never was either. Mexico has always been a big mess with the rich on one side and poor on the other..remember Pancho Villa?..so no, there is no middle class because of Mexico's weak economy and because you have a corrupt government who takes all from everyone, especially the poor...the rich there get richer.

Answer 5

Hahaha, you are a total ignorant, Mexico has millions of people of middle class, and Mexico has hundreds of super rich people, the people that go to the U.S. as illegal immigrants are the lowest class of Mexicans, come to Mexico City, stay in a good place, go to nice places, I mean if you are a poor American, then you will know the poor Mexican. Hahaha.

Answer 6

When the middle class started to surface in Mexico, the government devalued the peso to the point that it destroyed the middle class; now there is only rich and poor.

Answer 7

There was an all-out, class-based civil war in the 1910s and the lower class "won."

"Although [the party's] main pillars were, at least in theory, the peasants, workers, and other popular movements, it has also been closely allied with business since the 1940s."


They accomplished all of the socialist goals of wealth redistribution, strong labor unions, marginalizing religion, and even nationalized the oil companies.

Of course, the poorest kept getting poorer and the middle class has been almost non-existent.

Now they all want to come to America for some reason.

Answer 8

I cant believe some of you are saying there is no middle class in Mexico....shows your ignorance!

Yes, there is a middle class...its still in MEXICO. what we get are the lowest, "poorest", and many criminal illegals that arent even wanted in their own countries. so the USA has to take them in and care for them.

Answer 9

Yes, same happened with the middle class of Cuba, P.R. Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and venezuela.

Answer 10

There are two classes in Mexico - Rich and poor.