Editing Negros Occidental (section)

===America invasion era===
[[File:Jose de Luzuriaga, Filipino Teacher (1910).jpg|left|thumb|240x240px|[[José de Luzuriaga]], 2nd [[Governor of Negros Occidental]] after Melecio Severino]]
The  [[Cantonal Republic of Negros]] became a [[protectorate]] of the United States until 1901, when the republic was dissolved, with the two provinces annexed back to the Philippines. During the succeeding decades between 1901 and the 1930s, Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental were both under [[Insular Government]] of the [[United States|United States of America]] as with the rest of the nation and later under the Government of the [[Commonwealth of the Philippines]]. Economic growth continued especially with Philippine sugar having a part of the US market. The socio-economic lives of the island of Negros, from the 1950s up to the late 1980s, depended as before, mainly on the [[sugar industry]].

From 1914 to 1927, parts of Western Negros hosted several newly established settlements which became cities connected by railroads constructed to flow towards several "sugar centrals" which were processing the extremely sweet raw sugar canes grown in Negros' volcanic soil and farmed by several "Haciendas". These haciendas littered the countryside as the central sugar mills eventually grew to become full pledged towns and cities: chief among which were Ilog, Hinigaran, La Carlota, [[Silay]], Pulupandan, [[Bacolod]], [[San Carlos City, Negros Occidental|San Carlos]] and Bais<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/30685096|title=A Queen Dies Slowly: The Rise and Decline of Iloilo City&quot; in 'Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations' edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Ed. C. de Jesus (c. 1982), pp. 297-360|first=Alfred W.|last=McCoy|via=academia.edu}}</ref> 

Western Negros also saw massive immigration from [[Panay]] as the Spanish, Chinese, and French mestizos who administered the Haciendas<ref>Robustiano Echauz, Sketches of the Island of Negros (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, 1978), pp 73-74</ref> imported laborers from Panay island to foster the farming of Negros' sugar plantations and thereby displacing the Cebuano speaking natives.<ref>Estadisticas de los Terrenos Agricolas, La Carlota and Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, 1897, Varias Provincias, PNA.</ref>