Replying to a message of Gene McAloon to Adam Flinton:

 GM> From: Gene McAloon 

 GM> On Tue, 20 May 2003 08:21:32 +0100, Adam Flinton
 GM>  wrote:

 >> Wait till the southern belt of the USA is majority latin....then the
 >> sparks will fly over this.

 GM> The American South is not even beginning to go Latin.

Texas.

 GM> Latin presence
 GM> to a significant degree exists only in the American southwest where,
 GM> in fact, it has always been.

Southwest includes California nearly up to the Oregon border, Nevada up to
Winemucca, Arizona, New Mexico, most of Texas,  southwest Colorado, and
much of Florida.  Significant Hispanic population densities in other large
cities and some towns (the population of Lexington, Nebraska is over 50%
Hispanic, and I think there's a town in Iowa with similar demographics).

 GM> Most in that area were born in this
 GM> country and seceding isn't even a question. The Latin immigrants come
 GM> here precisely to get away from the misery that is Mexico.

 GM> If you are suggesting, as you have in the past, that the Latins will
 GM> want to secede then once more you show utter ignorance of why Latin
 GM> immigrants come to the this country if the first place, not to
 GM> mention that the term Latin applies to many different peoples from
 GM> various countries who mostly have little use for each other, let
 GM> alone for the American born Latinos so many of whom don't even speak
 GM> Spanish.

Many others don't speak English.

AAMOF, decades ago in San Francisco and in New York there were significant
Chinese populations that didn't speak English.  In fact, one could grow up
in those 'Chinatowns' and never hear English spoken.

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