Seems to me the iconography of the Latino/a domestic servant was stronger in the 90s. Last one I can even think of was in GTAV, really. Just saw someone talk about how part of immigration being an unmitigated plus for liberals was it suppressed the cost of their personal servants and that just felt dated, like having a Mexican housecleaner/gardener/nanny was such a 90s thing. Why is that? Possibilities:

• It’s still going on, and still being depicted, I’m just not consuming the same media any more
• A lot of the prominence came from the novelty of domestic service becoming economically viable for the specifically LA-based professional middle class, which has a disproportionate influence over national self-perception through media, the changing economics of content production means fewer creators have exposure to personal servants to draw on
• the “story” was substantially the novelty of the post-80 latino immigration wave: this was how it manifested in the employment market. Contemporary awareness of immigrant-dominated meatpacking plants is the equivalent
• This reflects a change in how the wave does manifest: single-employee contracting in the unregulated semiformal market in major cities known for immigrant communities is the kind of work disproportionately common in a young wave of unauthorized migrants, line work in large plants in low-cost rural areas linked in to networks of forgers and specialty retail reflects the wave’s maturation

What else?