{"id":24175,"date":"2017-04-23T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24175"},"modified":"2017-04-23T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T23:28:14","slug":"california-cinco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-cinco\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Celebrate Cinco de Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cincfive.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May and Margaritas! Ahhhh California! As Cinco de Mayo approaches &#8212; the May equivalent to March&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebration &#8212; nearly every restaurant and bar is stocking up on ample supplies of cocktail mixes, limes, tequila and Mexican beers. California&#8217;s population is shifting, according to\u00a0California Department of Finance&#8217;s latest report which projects the state&#8217;s Hispanic population will grow from 39% today to 46%\u00a0by 2060. A plurality of California is Hispanic with 15 million claiming Hispanic ethnicity. While Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in on May 5, 1862, it has become popular\u00a0festival for all\u00a0Californians who love Mexican food, beverages, dances and music.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-cinco-de-mayo.html\">Cinco de Mayo California<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>April 29, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SHAFTER<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>April 30, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>COMMERCE<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-cinco-de-mayo.html\"> Fiesta Broadway<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May 5, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALHAMBRA<\/li>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD<\/li>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD<\/li>\n<li>GRAEAGLE<\/li>\n<li>HIGHLAND<\/li>\n<li>SALINAS<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO<\/li>\n<li>SAN LEANDRO<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA<\/li>\n<li>SOUTH EL MONTE<\/li>\n<li>TUSTIN<\/li>\n<li>UPLAND<\/li>\n<li>VACAVILLE<\/li>\n<li>WEST HOLLYWOOD<\/li>\n<li>WINDSOR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May 5-7, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DINUBA:\u00a0 May 5-6<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-cincodemayo.html\">Fiesta Old Town <\/a>\u00a0May 5-7<\/li>\n<li>ANAHEIM: May 6-7<\/li>\n<li>RICHMOND: May 6-7<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ANA:\u00a0 Festival May 6-7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May 6, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CARSON<\/li>\n<li>CORONA<\/li>\n<li>DELANO<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO CUCAMONGA<\/li>\n<li>SAN BERNARDINO<\/li>\n<li>SAN CLEMENTE<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO<\/li>\n<li>SAN RAMON<\/li>\n<li>TULARE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May 7, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GUALALA<\/li>\n<li>STOCKTON<\/li>\n<li>LIVINGSTON<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY PARK<\/li>\n<li>MORAGA<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO CUCAMONGA<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May and Margaritas! Ahhhh California! As Cinco de Mayo approaches &#8212; the May equivalent to March&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebration &#8212; nearly every restaurant and bar is stocking up on ample supplies of cocktail mixes, limes, tequila and Mexican beers. California&#8217;s population is shifting, according to\u00a0California Department of Finance&#8217;s latest report which projects the state&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}