Un buen ejemplo, porque la realidad es que los Latinos que los Anglos declaran que sean "ilegales," de hecho eran invitado aquí para hacer los trabajos necesarios para que funciona este país! Y ahorita, despues de que los Latinos hayan contribuido tanto para la economia estadounidense-- sin recoger beneficios como la seguridad social sis mismos-- ahora, los Anglos quieren privar nos de nuestro derecho más basico, de vivir aquí, en la tierra donde que precedimos los Anglos desde siglos!!!?? Debemos que no aguantarlo!

I for one am glad to see the fools in Riverside get a lesson in being careful what they wish for.

Already this is having salutary effects: Some Anglo jerks in Bakersfield recently, tried to unsuccessfully to pass some resolution making English official in Bakersfield (and trashing español at every opportunity) while denying us benefits. As galling as this is anywhere in the USA, it's especially arrogant in states like California or Arizona where we were invaded and humiliated in the Mexican War, where español precedes English by centuries, where the treaties give official recognition of español for public applications and where we've been dwelling continuously for centuries.

IOW, as infuriating as the Anglos are elsewhere in the country, in places like California or Arizona, they're nothing less than imperial colonists. I'm fine to dwell with them here so long as they respect us, respect our rights and our history, our celebrations, our use of español in the public realm from offices and ballots to schools, colleges and universities, our right to be here.

I guess what it takes, is that we become a majority as we're doing in California, New Mexico and Tejas (and soon in Arizona), maybe even soon in south Florida at least, then we'll be able to reclaim our rights here. It's long overdue.

The same thing happened in Farmer's Branch, Texas. Some of the small towns where raids have been conducted are practically abandoned within weeks, too. It's like it never occurs to people that this will happen on a larger scale if 12 million people are removed from our national economy (which is in a recession as it is).

LOL I knew that was going to happen. People just don't think.

You beat me to it! Just saw this post and thought, Oh, Nezua would like that.... And here it already is ;-)

If the non-English bans ever take effect the majority of the States will have to change their names. Most are Native, Spanish or French names. There will be a state called Red, also Snowfall, Flowery, Green Mountain and so on.
Plainly, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Dakota, Illinois and Mississippi are not English either and will have to be changed. Local counties and towns all over the US will have to change, vast numbers of them have Native names like Metuchen, Manhattan, Pequot, Miami, there are many thousands. I guess people just don't pay any attention to the provenance of the name of their little town or notice that while driving around the US an awful lot of the map is in a Foreign or Native nomenclature. Horrors!

RC--
You joke. But from what I understand, that's exactly what the English crown forced on Ireland's towns.

Good-bye Gaelic, Hello English.

Well Mimi, I'm Irish, I know all about it. But a lot of the Auld Sod Eire refused to go along. If you have ever studied the Potato Famine, that was the Irish version of what recently happened in New Orleans. The Irish left Ireland and came to America and Australia because the English wanted it that way.

Yeah, I know that one...interesting connection to Katrina; I'd not heard that made. I'm a Heinz-57 with a whole lot of Irish -- a descendent of those who fled the famine and found successful farming lives here --dreaded immigrants of their time. I never really thought much about the language side of cultural imperialism, though, until I saw a production of the play "Translations" by Brian Friel. The plot is set in a little Irish village, and it surrounds all the flushing out of anything that isn't English, including street and town names.

About the Riverside story, I hope Americans wake up and see what Nez is talking about before its too late. Damn, how on it:

"the problem is that those very loud voices on the Right, be they well-paid media pundits or Congressmembers, are quite insulated, economically."

Everybody needs to tell these politicians' staff members (the ones that the politiicans WILL listen to) that anti-immigration sentiment will lead to Riversides, and a negative impact on economies translates to anti-incumbent sentiment.

That insulation may also be reflected in the stock market, which is starting to reflect the ability of international corporations to benefit the investment class, regardless of the impact on the local working and middle classes.

We need to find ways to convey to the middle class that they will bear the burden of whatever suffering is visited on the working class, and not their leaders and talking heads on T.V.