Fernanda Santos is a writer and professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. She is the former Phoenix bureau chief for the The New York Times. She is the author of The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.
For a century, Anglos from cold corners of the country have been lured here by the promise that this was a place where they could live among their own, in communities with nary a brown person in sight.