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Balrog0 02/22/18 4:44:37 PM #1: |
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/2/22/17040286/immigration-daca-white-nationalism-ethno-trump-racist-latino-citizenship
Until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the entire American Southwest, half of Colorado, and even bits of Wyoming and Kansas were literally Mexico. (Texas declared independence earlier, but Mexico didnt recognize it.) The treaty drew the border right through the middle of a culturally coherent, economically unified trade zone and labor market. Look closely at this map: Trump supporters who thrill to the idea of a big, beautiful wall on the border largely fail to grasp that the ancestors of many of the people they want to keep out have been here all along, and that people cross back and forth over the border in part because the border crossed a people. In 1870, the first year for which census data is available, Arizona was 61 percent Hispanic. If it works its way back up to that from todays 30 percent, it wont have become less American. It will have become more like it was when it became American. Before the Gold Rush, Spanish-speaking Mexicans and indigenous people outnumbered English-speaking white settlers in California by a wide margin. Today in the Golden State, where the largest population of DREAMers lives, the most common last names are Garcia, Hernandez, and Lopez and an American is as just as likely to be Hispanic as white. DREAMers arent like us. They are us. --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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