[uncbob]

:Oh, so you WOULD have kicked them out of Washington's army because they didn't speak English?

What has being in an Army have to do with what we are talking about
In either case talking to a group of people who only understand Spanish and urging them to call their representatives because the democrats are screwing a Hispanic American is no different than the democrats doing the same thing by asking them to support somebody because of race or etnicity
Might work as a political tactic but that is what we criticize the democrats for

[LS]

Just so you recall, you brought this up in the context that BECAUSE they spoke Spanish they were somehow illegitimate as citizens. Don't deny it.

And my point is, our nation has NEVER been as "anglicized" as many here want to think. We have studies that the assimilation rate of Hispanics is TWICE as fast into the "mainstream" English culture as GERMANS or IRISH.

Germans retained their "Germanity" FAR longer and clung to it with far more tenacity than the Hispanics have clung to their Mexican-ness.