This report provides statistical data on the job patterns that prevail for Spanish Americans in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The Southwest once represented an internal colonial empire to the United States, and the inhabitants were treated as such. Present employment patterns must be viewed in this light. The data show that Spanish Americans are greatly underrepresented in white collar occupations and the training programs for these occupations, but they are fairly well represented in craftsmen jobs and in on-the-job training programs for blue-collar occupations. The presence of a large proportion of Spanish Americans in the population does not improve whitecollar employment opportunities in a region, even for the lowest level jobs. (BH)