Posted on 06/27/2008 6:20:28 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Must be so the plate has a fly on it (national bird).
Hispanic can refer to those from Latin American but another definition is someone who speaks Spanish or is Continental Spanish. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hispanic
Celebrate “this”.
thank you!!!
The Spaniard wannabes should go to Jacksonville/Mayport and visit Ft Caroline.
Ft Caroline is the site of a French settlement that predates all of the spanish settlements in Florida. It is very well documented and includes a replica of a stone pillar erected by Adm Ribault in about 1562.
i have lived my whole life in florida and just want to say that i am appalled.
Anyway the Spanish who discovered Florida were not Mestizo like virtually everyone in Mexico.
Now some Cubans really are Spanish.
You are right, I was trying to think of all of the tribes Native to Florida and didn’t remember that.
You are not precisely correct....
See my post 27
There is a poll at the end of the article: “Do you support Hispanic plate?”
It doesn’t look like it has to be Freeped (but it wouldn’t hurt) as the present score is: 83.8% NO, 14.1% YES
And, the usual suck-ups at work: “It also has the support of state Sen. Gary Siplin, a Democrat in a district with many Hispanic residents.”
Well, if the guy promoting this is speaking for people from what the Romans call Hispania, he might have a point. Or, does he mean people from the island of Hispanola? Hmmm.
"At Windover, more ancient human remains were discovered than the total of all others found previously in the New World, and they were the oldest."
It’s really ironic that the Florida State University has the Seminoles as their mascot, isn’t it?..................LOL!!! GO GATORS!!!...................
I have been here since '69, and I am, too. But not surprised............
The Spanish had made several settlement attempts prior to that. The first Spanish landing was in 1513 on the Atlantic Coast of Florida, but the settlement attempts were on the Gulf Coast.
The Spanish had explored as far up as the Hudson and had attempted settlements in the Carolinas, but primarily because of Indian hostility, none of them lasted.
The French wanted to establish an outpost to attack the Spanish treasure fleet (which at that point came in fairly close to the shore before angling north east across the Atlantic) and decided to build a fort and settlement at what is now Jacksonville. The French king used the Huguenots, who hated the Spanish because they were Catholics and as pirates and privateers had preyed on Spanish ships and even Spanish coastal villages for some time in Europe. Their leader, Ribault, was already famous in the Atlantic as a pirate.
When the Spanish heard of this, they decided to focus on the Atlantic Coast again, and sent an expedition led by Menendez de Aviles, who was the admiral who had been responsible for protecting the Spanish coast from the Huguenots. Just as the Spanish had been driven out by the Indians from other earlier settlements, the French were driven out from this settlement by the Spanish. So the French settlement therefore was not a permanent settlement; the first European settlements of any kind were Spanish settlements, and the first permanent one (that is, one that lasted) was the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine.
Words only have meaning to literates.
“Spaniards are...hang on to your hats...Europeans!!”
And considered white, too!
“The US is no longer a melting pot.”
As Paul Harvey said, “It has become a pressure cooker.”
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