Do your neighbors look like you? Your neighborhood may be changing. Trends in Houston’s suburbs mean stereotypes about race may no longer apply, if they ever did.

But one suburb seems like a flashpoint where this change is most dramatic.

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Both sides of the fight.

Maybe nothing says “suburb” like this: fine homes on a golf course in north Harris County. Players playing and groundskeepers working all in a sort of picture-perfect harmony.

But just a couple miles away there's a conflict that may strike some as out-of-place in the otherwise serene suburbs: a showdown at a day-labor site.

The shouting match is becoming a regular weekend event along Stuebner-Airline in Klein. But there’s debate over whether the roadside rage fairly represents what’s really going on here in one of the last remaining suburbs of Houston where Anglos are still a clear majority.

“That’s still a very conservative area,” said St. Thomas University professor J.P. Faletta. He said Houston’s suburbs have been evolving in a way not at all like many cities.

“Houston is rather unique,” he said.

In some places it was called "white flight": Whites leaving the center of cities and heading for the suburbs, leaving the central cities mostly minority and the suburbs mostly white. But in Houston, it was never that simple, never that black and white.

Houston has been — and is increasingly — all mixed up.

“Basically what you have is almost like a patchwork quilt where where you reside is not so much based on your race as it is by your economic class,” Faletta said.

There's no better example of that is what’s happening right next door to Klein. Spring ISD was white-majority just a decade ago, but now whites make-up only a 21 percent of the student body  Spring neighborhoods are increasingly home to families like the Estradas.

“We just moved from Chicago,” Deibyn Estrada Sr. said.

They are Guatamalan-American, living the suburban dream with a big house among the tall trees and going to a school Deibyn Estrada Jr. said is more diverse than where he went in Chicago.

“There’s like black people, white people, Hispanic people,” the younger Estrada said. He thinks it’s good.

“That kind of pattern is repeating itself all over our region,” Ann Lents said. Lents was once a downtown lawyer but now runs the non-profit Center for Houston’s Future and said, racially-speaking, there is no majority anymore.

“Montgomery County is the most predominantly Anglo county in our five-county area,” she said. “They’re at about three-quarters Anglo, but they’re headed in the same direction we all are.”

A direction of fewer Anglos like in Klein, where whites are still the majority, but they may not be for long. Twenty-year resident John Basel says so what?

“I don’t understand why its become such a burning issue recently,” Basel said. He’s a former banker, now owns a gymnastics business and is involved with a church group trying to mediate the day laborer issue.

His kids go to Klein schools and while the racial percentages may be changing, he said none of his neighbors seem terribly concerned about the immigration issue or who’s living next door.

“I haven’t had any real conversations with just friends and neighbors about, 'hey this is a real problem,'” he said.

It's disagreement over what is a problem as Houston continues to grow, defying stereotypes about who lives in the suburbs.