[FITZ]

I think it's considered (erroneously) a hispanic issue because some believe that is a homogenous new race group --- that all SW Americans with Spanish ancestry feel some magical connection with Mexico --- when many haven't visited there for many generations and have no connections with the place, and they believe that because Cuban Americans and these Spanish Americans might be conservative, that every indigent peasant from Mexico and Guatemala must also be conservative.

There is no evidence that Mexico and Central America ever had anything even close to the Republican party --- there is no correlation to American Conservatives in those countries.

[raybbr]

Say what you will, it has been made into an hispanic issue. Have you seen interviews with other ethnicities? All I ever see are sob stories about hispanics. What about all the other groups? How come no one interviews a Polish or Asian family about their plight? How come we never see a story about some hard-working Russian who risked his life to come here? Is it because they come here and assimilate? Or, are hispanics treated as some noble immigrant because he sends most of his money back home to his family never considering supporting and becoming a part of the country that he sponges off of?