California is home to a large and growing population of Indigenous people of Mexican birth or descent.
200,000 people in the state are descended from one or more of Mexico's over 60 Indigenous groups.
50,000 are estimated to be Mixtec, an indigenous people from the La Mixteca region of Western Oaxaca and nearby portions of Puebla and Guerrero.
The term carries the connotation that being from Oaxaca is negative and is often also used against any Mexican-American who is short or fat.
[5] In clandestinely recorded audio leaked to the public, erstwhile president of the Los Angeles City Council Nury Martinez, a mestiza, mocked the Oaxacan community in Koreatown, saying "I see a lot of little short dark people there," whom she described as ugly.