Propiedad de Vivienda por Hispanos Alcanza Su Nivel Más Alto

Republican National Committee ^ | April 27, 2005

[RWR8189]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Tara Wall
202-863-8614

 

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"Los históricos datos sobre la propiedad de vivienda por hispanos anunciados esta semana indican que las políticas a favor del crecimiento del Presidente Bush están posibilitando que más familias minoritarias que antes hagan realidad el sueño americano. Casi 50 por ciento de las familias hispanas son dueñas de sus propias casas y 1.9 millones de personas adicionales que son miembros de minorías han pasado a ser dueñas de casa desde que el Presidente Bush inició su programa para aumentar a 5.5 millones la propiedad de vivienda por minorías para el 2010. La propiedad de vivienda es apenas un aspecto del extenso plan de gobierno del Presidente Bush para aumentar las oportunidades para todos los estadounidenses, lo que incluye mejorar el Seguro Social a favor de generaciones futuras con la creación de cuentas personales y voluntarias para la jubilación que permitirán que las familias minoritarias acumulen bienes y ahorros para legárselos a sus seres queridos".

 

- Ken Mehlman, presidente del RNC

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La propiedad de vivienda y las ventas de casas existentes y nuevas:

 

Las ventas de viviendas existentes suben en marzo al "tercer nivel de ventas más alto que se ha registrado". "Las ventas de viviendas existentes aumentaron más de lo esperado el mes pasado… un grupo del sector dijo el lunes en un informe que contradijo pronósticos que el mercado perdería fuerza. La Asociación Nacional de Agentes Inmobiliarios (National Association of Realtors) dijo que las ventas de casas, casas en hilera, condominios y apartamentos en cooperativas existentes, que representan aproximadamente 85% de todas las ventas de viviendas, aumentaron 1% a una tasa anual ajustada para la temporada de 6.89 millones en marzo. Esa es la tercera cifra de ventas más alta que se ha registrado, muy por encima de los pronósticos de los economistas de un mes de ventas esencialmente sin cambios". [Sue Kirchhoff, "Las ventas de viviendas en marzo superan las expectativas" ("March Home Sales Defy Expectations"), USA Today, 26/4/05]

 

· "Los economistas esperan desde hace meses que el mercado de vivienda pierda fuerza en comparación con el paso récord del 2004. Pero en semanas recientes, las ventas también han aumentado, impulsadas por una economía fuerte, por lo general, y tasas hipotecarias que permanecen debajo de 6% para un préstamo fijo de 30 años". (Sue Kirchhoff, "March Home Sales Defy Expectations," USA Today, 26/4/05)

 

· "La Oficina del Censo (Census Bureau) dijo que la propiedad de vivienda por hispanos alcanzó su punto máximo de 49.7% en el primer trimestre del 2005". (Sue Kirchhoff, "March Home Sales Defy Expectations," USA Today, 26/4/05)

 

· Durante el primer trimestre del 2005 "la propiedad de vivienda, en general, siguió siendo de 69.1%, prácticamente constante, mientras que la tasa de propiedad entre los afro-americanos fue de 48.8%, en comparación con 49.1% en el cuarto trimestre del 2004". (Sue Kirchhoff, "March Home Sales Defy Expectations," USA Today, 26/4/05)

 

Las ventas de viviendas nuevas en los Estados Unidos alcanzan un récord en marzo. "Las ventas de viviendas nuevas en los Estados Unidos saltaron 12% en marzo a una tasa anual ajustada para la temporada de 1.431 millones, un récord, el Departamento de Comercio calculó el martes. Las ventas de marzo rompieron el récord previo de 1.304 millones alcanzado el pasado octubre. Fue el mayor aumento porcentual de casi 12 años. El aumento superó con mucho las expectativas de los economistas, que previeron una ligera caída de ventas a 1.19 millones…" [Rex Nutting, "Ventas de viviendas nuevas destruyen récord anterior" (New Home Sales Smash Old Record"), CBSMarketWatch, 26/4/05)

[Czar]

Why? The GOP isn't going to get any of it.

[F16Fighter]

"PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH..."

[pierrem15]

Aber wissen Sie nicht dass die deutsche Sprache ist ein der schoensten Sprachen der Welt?

[NRA2BFree]

They have the release in English here:

Hispanic Home Ownership Hits Record High

I thought someone would have seen it by now.

Where did you find this one? I checked the original link and it was in Spanish, and I couldn't find a link that would translate it to English!

[texastoo]

Nice , very nice. Romantic???Nah

[Polybius]

Is this what's known as pandering? Seeing as I don't understand it I can't respond to it except to say, "Bei Mir dieses ist scheiss".

No, it is known as putting out your message in a form that will have the most impact.

When you are advertising, nobody has to read your message. It can simply be ignored.

The bottom line is that, regardless of how many languages you speak, your reading speed and reading ease will be much greater in your first, or more accurately, your "dominant" language.

In my own Cuban American family, we have been bilingual in English and Spanish since the 1800's. Since English was the language of international commercial success, my grandparent's and parent's generations in Cuba would be shipped off to American boarding schools in the U.S. to learn English.

When we came to the U.S. from Cuba in the 1960's, I, the 6 year old, was the only member of my family that could not already speak English. My grandparents, my parents and all my older cousins already spoke English fluently before they ever left Cuba.

However, one language will tend to be the dominant one unless you have many years of equal use.

My parent's generation had "co-dominance" in the languages as they had fully mastered Spanish at the highest levels in Cuba and then worked daily in English in the U.S. They read both languages with equal ease.

Our grandparents spoke English just fine but, when it came to reading, they preferred books in Spanish. They were "Spanish dominant".

My generation growing up in the U.S. was "English dominant" as our Spanish education was never at the level that our parent's and grandparent's Spanish education had been. So, given a choice of reading a professional journal in either English or Spanish, we will choose the English version every time unless we feel compelled to slog through the Spanish version when we feel particularly masochistic.

If I were to describe the reading experience in your non-dominant language to someone who is monolingual, I would compare it to the difference in reading a Tom Clancy novel to reading Shakespeare.

Yes, you can read and understand both of them. However, you can devour the Tom Clancy novel at warp speed but you have to slog through Shakespeare at a much slower pace with frequent peaks at the Cliff Notes.

When the Republican National Committee writes in Spanish, it is targeting the older voters who are and will always be "Spanish dominant".

Instead of giving their potential voters a pamphlet written in the equivalent of Elizabethan English, they are putting out that same message in the equivalent of Tom Clancy English.

That is not "pandering". That is good advertising.

One should not jump to conclusions in equating total English mastery with patriotism. A reading of the autobiography of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's leading World War One ace, will show that, when he was growing up, the language that he spoke at home was...........German.

He told about being beaten up on his way to school each day because his English was not all that great.

[nonliberal]

When did we move to Mexico?

[nonliberal]

Great album!!

[backslacker]

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't every Spanish-speaking nation in the Western Hemisphere, including Puerto Rico, AND MEXICO, have Spanish as its official language?"

From about.com:
"Spanish is the primary language on the island and for a short time earlier this decade, it was the commonwealth's official language. While most Puerto Ricans speak some English, only about a quarter of the population are fully bilingual."

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa031698.htm

Also, Puerto Rico is commonwealth of the United States. It is not a separate nation.

[raybbr]

Yeah, that's what I thought - pandering.

[Polybius]

Yeah, that's what I thought - pandering.

As opposed to, say, advertising on TV commercials in Illinois and Connecticut by using somebody who speaks with a Deep South accent that is more difficult for the locals to understand?

As I said, this is not a U.S. Government pamphlet. It is ADVERTISING that the advertiser is trying to get people to take the time to read. The faster an advertisement is to read, the more likely it will actually get read instead of being thrown in the trash.

When Presidential elections were tipped by the Electoral Votes of a single State in both 2000 and 2004, who needs to bother advertising in the most effective way to reach your potential voters?

Have people with Bronx accents on your TV spots in South Carolina. If the Southerners don't pay attention, who needs them.

It is much more satisfying to cut off your nose to spite your face.

"Thanks for your help, raybbr! Your advertising skill put me here!!"

[jpsb]

If Spanish posts are allowed at FR I will stop visiting FR.

[raybbr]

"Thanks for your help, raybbr! Your advertising skill put me here!!"

Oh boy. You should change your name to: hyperbole + Polybius=Hyperpolybius.

BTW I notice that you and few others keep mentioning Hillary no matter what others say. I never mentioned Hillary. I am beginning to think you guys are really supporters of Hillary using not-so-subliminal methods to get us to switch to supporting Hillary.

It's a nice try but I don't think I will.

[raybbr]

As opposed to, say, advertising on TV commercials in Illinois and Connecticut by using somebody who speaks with a Deep South accent that is more difficult for the locals to understand?

Perhaps you think me as stupid as a democrat would. In fact, it does bother me when they use southern accents or New Yahk accents in commercials. I simply cannot relate. In the same way I cannot relate to hispanic pandering.

[Polybius]

"Thanks for your help, raybbr! Your advertising skill put me here!!"

Oh boy. You should change your name to: hyperbole + Polybius=Hyperpolybius. BTW I notice that you and few others keep mentioning Hillary no matter what others say.

It is no more hyperbole that claiming that campaign advertising written in a form that is easier for your target audience to read is "pandering".

Unless your family has lived for the last 200 in the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, chances are that your family tree has somebody from the waves of immigrants who came to America ever since the European upheavals of 1848.

After the Civil War, the Republican Party had a hammer-lock on political power and sat on its laurels. They either ignored the immigrant or were openly hostile to them. In their political cartoons, the Republicn "Harper's Weekly Magazine" always made it a point to portray Irish immigrants as apes.

The Democrats, however, sought out your great-great-grandparents be they "Pollocks" or "Micks" or "Krauts" or "Wops" or "Kikes" and spoke to them and communicated with them in political pamphlets written in their own native Polish or Gaelic or German or Italian or Yiddish.

As a result, they won over the hearts of those immigrants in the 1880's and 1890's and 1900's and 1910's. And the hearts of their children and and their children.

That is why the Democrats controlled politics for the last three quarters of a century.

You are advocating making the same mistake all over again.

[raybbr]

The Democrats, however, sought out your great-great-grandparents be they "Pollocks" or "Micks" or "Krauts" or "Wops" or "Kikes" and spoke to them and communicated with them in political pamphlets written in their own native Polish or Gaelic or German or Italian or Yiddish.

As a result, they won over the hearts of those immigrants in the 1880's and 1890's and 1900's and 1910's. And the hearts of their children and and their children.

That is why the Democrats controlled politics for the last three quarters of a century.

You are advocating making the same mistake all over again.

You do realize you just made my argument against the GOP's pandering in spanish, don't you?

If you don't think so insert "spic" for your derogatory terms and spanish in the pamphlets part.

Thanks for affirming my position.

[Polybius]

The Democrats, however, sought out your great-great-grandparents be they "Pollocks" or "Micks" or "Krauts" or "Wops" or "Kikes" and spoke to them and communicated with them in political pamphlets written in their own native Polish or Gaelic or German or Italian or Yiddish. As a result, they won over the hearts of those immigrants in the 1880's and 1890's and 1900's and 1910's. And the hearts of their children and and their children. That is why the Democrats controlled politics for the last three quarters of a century. You are advocating making the same mistake all over again.

You do realize you just made my argument against the GOP's pandering in spanish, don't you? If you don't think so insert "spic" for your derogatory terms and spanish in the pamphlets part. Thanks for affirming my position.

Your statement makes absolutely no logical sense unless your point was that you desire that the Democrat Party political dominance that occurred in the 20th Century be repeated in the 21st Century.

Let's review the lessons of American History one more time.

Back in the 1870's, the prejudice against against legal immigrants (not illegal immigrants who are a totally different matter) was so great that many Americans looked down upon them and called them all sorts of derogatory slurs.

One American political party, the Republican Party, would not condescend to have anything to do with these people.

The Democrat Party on the other hand, welcomed them. They reached out to that first generation of immigrants when maybe the grandfather or the father had not fully mastered the English language, the Democrats took the trouble to make sure that they communicated effectively with those new immigrants by providing reading material that they could more easily read in Yiddish or Polish or Italian or German or whatever language they spoke.

As a result, the new immigrants and the children flocked into the ranks of the Democrat Party.

By the early 1900's, some Republicans saw the folly of ignoring these new Americans and driving them and their future children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren into the Democrat Party camp for generations to come.

Theodore Roosevelt campaign literature, 1904 Yiddish text: The Facts about the Candidate, by Byron Andrews . . . Translated into Yiddish by Rabbi Simon.

However, by then it was too late.

The Democratic Party had already fully earned the loyalty of not only those immigrants in the late 1800's but also the loyalty of the millions upon millions of future red-blooded American generations in the 1920's and 1940's and 1980's and even today who were told by Grandfather or Grandmother that their family always votes Democrat because the Democrats treated Great-Great-Grandfather as a fellow American who may have been language challenged back in 1880 but the Republicans treated Great-Great-Grandfather as an outsider not worthy of communicating with.

As a result, Conservatives today who never learned American History very well then wonder why so many millions upon millions of Americans have Conservative values but still remain so loyal to the Democrat Party.

"You do realize you just made my argument against the GOP's pandering in Spanish, don't you?", you ask me.

That depends.

If you are a Democrat Party strategist seeking to reestablish the Democratic Party's near monopoly on the vote of Americans with an immigrant background that made the Republican Party a minority party for three quarters of a century, then, yes, you most certainly have made your argument.

[raybbr]

Let's start over.

I call this ad pandering.

You say it's good advetising.

I say, "Yep. Pandering".

To which you explain that the democrat party got it's strength by pandering.

I say, "You've proved my point".

You again say, " The Democrat Party on the other hand, welcomed them. They reached out to that first generation of immigrants when maybe the grandfather or the father had not fully mastered the English language, the Democrats took the trouble to make sure that they communicated effectively with those new immigrants by providing reading material that they could more easily read in Yiddish or Polish or Italian or German or whatever language they spoke.

As a result, the new immigrants and the children flocked into the ranks of the Democrat Party.

Which is, in effect, pandering.

So. How is it pandering by the democrats and not pandering by the republicans?

Unless your point all along is that it's okay to pander? I don't think pandering is productive on any level. If people that come here don't want to learn to speak english and acclimate then let them suffer. My grandparents all learned english and didn't expect information provided to them to be in Polish or German. Why should hispanics? And don't try to tell me they don't.

[theFIRMbss]

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Sometime around the turn of the 20th century, and especially before WWI, there were thriving papers in German, Yiddish, and other non-English papers in the US.

There were (and maybe still are) areas where various languages besides English OR Spanish are spoken, I believe, especially in big towns like Chicago where people kept their ethnic folkways longer. Polish. Italian. Chinese.

English has been the glue that kept us together, but using other languages in large amounts has been an American way since the founding.

There were plenty of towns in Pennsylvania where German was the dominant language ca, 1800, and towns in the south where Welsh was spoken by everybody.

Basque in the Intermountain West. French in Louisiana and Maine (and they never totally killed out French, although the number of people who speak it are much fewer).

Yes, I think everybody who lives here needs some English. I don't think all first generation settlers make it, but their kids should. And if the numbers are big enough, there will be organizations that reach out to these people, often in their mother tongue.

German speakers had plenty of support from other German speakers. WWI put a crimp on it (one poor Lutheran pastor even got lynched for praying with a dying woman in German), but it was certainly there.