What did people in Mexico experience during the revolution?
Fuentes: There was a lot of pain and suffering. A million people died in the process. That’s a painful experience. And why? What did they fight for? A lot didn’t know what they were fighting for. Quite often they were fighting for Madero, for Villa, for personalities rather than ideas. Women had to be protected so that would not be taken. Soldiers were out of control. They were not very well disciplined. They were not professional soldiers. And even if you are a professional soldier, that does not mean you won’t commit atrocities. A lot of people came here as a result of the upheaval. At the time the revolution started, how would you describe the Mexican American community in Orange County? Brigandi: Before 1900, Orange County’s Mexican American population was largely made up of old Californio families who had been here for generations. By 1910, there were the beginnings of a few barrios — Logan, in Santa Ana, was probably one of the first — but many of the families still lived in old,
