[Miss Marple]

This writer's assumptions are not supported by Torie's figures. I wonder which is the true picture?

[FITZ]

Torie doesn't make a distinction between the Spanish -surnamed who have lived in the US for generations and the newly arrived from Mexico. There are actually some big differences between the people who left Mexico at the time of the Revolution, the people who descend from the Spaniards and native SW people and the illegals coming in droves. For one---the first group were either here or came legally to the US --and were here well before welfare handouts, many of the latter are strictly here for what they can get.

[FITZ]

Sanchez is a new kind of politician for Texas--- 10 or 20 years ago, he wouldn't have had much support even from Hispanics but there are some big shifts occurring because immigration of people from Mexico who are used to a PRI type system and voted that in for 70 years. Morales (Texas attorney general) correctly compared Sanchez with a Mexican governor who buys himself an election.