You know you’re in “the Valley” when you start to see palm trees lining the roads and you get a whiff of carne asada on every street corner. It’s more than just a cluster of cities in Texas, it is a state of mind. As marketers, we want to try our best to reach consumers in the best possible ways. We want them to connect to our message, engage in our brand and ultimately buy our products. When we analyze Hispanic consumers in the US many of us break them down by generation, length of time in the US, education, basic demographics, but that is sometimes not enough. If we seriously want to understand consumers we must understand the places in which they live.