Did you read what Ruben Navarrette, Jr said?
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 03-04-2011
3
Well, probably not, and I don’t intended to say all that he said, but you can read him in the April 3, 2011 Albuquerque Journal, “Hispanics Part of National Fabric”, should you desire. One thing that he says is that the big Latino population gains were made in states like, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina…They have good taste in country, I’ll say that for them….but here’s the kicker…He said, “However, it’s just as likely that the more the Latino population grows, the more frightened and desperate Anglos will become. Republicans are the official party of “frightened” and “desperate”……You know, I could write several pages about that statement, but I won’t. I think he is just crowing about his homelands population growth. Maybe some day he will write about the joys of living in the United States, reckon?……………..Naw, I doubt it also….
For once, Mr. Navarrette is right. Sure, the largest population gains of Latinos are in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. Where there is none, a gain of one is 100%. Where there is saturation, a gain of one more is a very low fraction of one percent. Like the Middle East region, the Southwest is already close to its saturation point in terms of population regardless of the kind of people one is talking about. The Southeast, where millions of acres of fertile farmland is lying fallow, is just beginning the road towards saturation. There are millions of acres of fertile farmland in New Mexico, but it needs water. Like the ancient bard said, “Water, water everywhere, but none to drink.” In New Mexico’s case, there is just none anywhere, and even the little there is, is becoming increasingly polluted, like around Albuquerque.
maybe you should check the census results for the southeast. Gains of Latino population is pretty impressive. My point was the frightened and desperate people, who he says are republicans. Are the people of the southeast frightened and desperate? I don’t think so…..
I have let Mr. Navarrette know that, as a Republican and as a resident of the region of which he writes, I will be only frightened and desperate if Barack Obama succeeds in being reelected next year. I’d be even more frightened and desperate if Hillary succeeds in succeeding him in 2016, frightened and desperate for the survival of the nation that is.
Gains of the Latino population in the Southeast is recent, like in the last 20 years. New Mexico was close to the saturation point even when I was there in the late Sixties. It was so near the saturation point that the Latinos with whom I worked on the base, who were in this country legally, insisted on being called Spanish or Hispanic rather than Mexican. They did not like the term Mexican. These were people with sir names of Baca and Luna, which were obviously Hispanic in origin. My Hispanic friends at that time considered it an insult to be referred to as Mexican. I was careful not to do so when I was around them.