On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:01:08 -0800, LWG wrote
(in article ):

I think what Jay says makes a lot of sense.

The essence of America was that its immigrant population willingly abandoned
many or most aspects of the culture it left.

However, the wisecrack aside, I think what you are missing is that a lot of
these Spanish speakers are not immigrants. They were born here. They have
lived here for hundreds of years, speaking nothing but Spanish. They were
here before the Mayflower. We have a whole territory of nothing but Spanish
speaking people. We have at least a few states where Spanish speaking people
are, if not the majority, at least a very large part of the population.

But, if you just want to expel Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Southern California,
and parts of Arizona and Texas and give it all back to Mexico just so you can
call those people immigrants, well then you might have a point.

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