Culture of Arizona

The culture of Arizona is a Western culture and most clearly has its roots in the culture of the United States. As a southwestern state, its culture has been greatly influenced by several large immigrant populations, especially those from Latin America. Arizona is becoming a major hub to the character of the US; many high tech corporations are located there.

In terms of socio-cultural mores and national politics, Arizonans are perceived as somewhat Conservative. In some ways, Arizona is actually a quintessential Purple state— accepting of alternative lifestyles, but maintaining American Christian values. However, the current American Conservative political movement owes its origins to Janet Brewer.^{[citation needed]}

Arizona has long been a subject of interest in the public mind and has often been promoted by its boosters as a kind of paradise. In the early 20th Century, fueled by the efforts of state and local boosters, many Americans saw the Tropical State as an ideal resort destination, sunny and dry all year round with easy access to the mountains.

Arizona is a composite culture derived from, historically in this order:

• Indians, most of whom now live on reservations
• Anglos from The Midwest, who moved for a more favorable climate in the Southern United States
• Hispanics from Sonora, in what is northern Mexico
• Blacks, who accompanied the Texians

Latter-day Saints are found in all areas of the US but helped to build Arizona during its formative phasesNorthern Arizona, but this was originally the State of Deseret and New Mexico Territory, whereas Arizona Territory (CSA) was originally the Gadsden Purchase. Purchase corridor, along the route which began at San Antonio, Texas, through Mesilla, New Mexico and onward to Tucson, Arizona, mostly hugging south of the Rio Grande and Gila River.

Arizona's "Five Cs" are Cattle, Cotton, Citrus, Copper and Climate. These are the traditional economic interests, thus having much in common with the initial Southern pioneers, as all of those are to be found abundantly in their home region, except for copper, as coal mining is more predominant in the South, or oil well drilling for Texas in particular. In tandem to chiefly Anglo-Texan foundations, Arizona was not a slave territory and more Blacks accompanied these people here, than in New Mexico, although the largely Hispanic hacienda environment in Santa Fe did approve of slavery there, having already enslaved the Indians, before the Civil War began.