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59 Coachella
Although Filipino workers were a large and important part of the farm labor workforce in the Coachella Valley from the 1920s to the 1970s, very few grape workers come from the Philippines today. Francisco and Maria Tapec, Filipino grape pickers, came from Cagayan.

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