Economist Paul S. Taylor, in his book An American- Mexican Frontier: Nueces County, Texas (1934), explores the identity issues faced by Hispanics in Texas and the broader United States in the 1930s. Taylor begins by noting that the Hispanic community in the United States is not monolithic; different Hispanic groups in different areas define themselves differently. He writes that some Mexican Americans call themselves Spanish-Americans and others label themselves by their states—“Arizona-Mexicans” for instance. Taylor then concentrates on the Mexican American community in Nueces County in southeast Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico.