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You do realize that most of what is now the US was speaking spanish and colonized by spanish speakers long before a bunch of WASPs didn't want to pay their taxes to England? The Dutch beat them to the NE. Not to mention the Norse people were here ages before any of that. So actually more people speaking spanish would be a return to normal.
Uh; MOST of what is now the US was NEVER owned by Spain so speaking Spanish ain't "normal" by your definition. Sheesh!
Uh; MOST of what is now the US was NEVER owned by Spain so speaking Spanish ain't "normal" by your definition. Sheesh!
Not a fan of history I see.
California, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, N and S carolina. All states with a Spanish speaking presence centuries before Plymouth Company or Virginia. I'm sure I didn't even list all of them. Care to comment?
California, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, N and S carolina. All states with a Spanish speaking presence centuries before Plymouth Company or Virginia. I'm sure I didn't even list all of them. Care to comment?
Tenuous, fleeting claims or a solitary expedition by Cortés doesn't mean the Spanish "owned it". Pope Alexander IV decreed in the late 1400s that everything 100 leagues west of the Azores belonged to Spain (and everything east belonged to Portugal), but that doesn't mean Latin Americans have any claim to Canada or a right to live there.
Even those areas where their claim may have been somewhat solid for a time were almost never actively settled and were not "Spanish speaking" (save for New Mexico and a thin coastal strip of California). Indigenous peoples are the only one's with any true claim to those areas.
The US has reached a demographic tipping point, with most babies born now belonging to minority groups.
According to the US Census bureau, black, Hispanic, Asian and mixed-race births made up 50.4% of new arrivals in the year ending in July 2011.
The official notice foreshadows the day, expected in the 2040s, when non-Hispanic whites - like the group that founded America - will be in the minority.BBC News - What will a white-minority US look like?
So could it mean the Spanish speaking minority would assimilate and would much more commonly use English rather than Spanish? In addition would there soon be a Hispanic president?
Plus would the culture of the US be similiar today as in 50 years time?
PS: No racist comments here please.
I was looking over some interesting fertility figures recently and I'm not so sure it will come to pass as predicted. I was amazed at how much the fertility rate has dropped among all ethnic groups, including hispanics. Might be more of a plurality type situation.
The US will look a lot like Texas. Here in Texas, we have been a "majority minority" state now for several years, meaning that non Hispanic whites make up less than fifty percent of the population.
Hawaii has never been a majority-white state, and it seems to be doing fairly well.
The last time i checked the irish people were as pale as ever.
Im beginning to get sick of these annoying american conclusions irish people are not poor they dont live in favellas. My father had a porsche 911 and four houses we now have a vans plane. We are not poor.
But 150 years ago, anti-Irish discrimination was rampant. "No Irish need apply" signs were often seen. They were arguably treated worse than Hispanics are today.
Let me know when minority business ownership surpasses white business ownership. As far as I can tell, that circumstance won't take place anytime soon, and certainly not before the nation has been ran into a permanent financial ditch.
Minorities better hop to it if they think they can propel this nation back to greatness. The data .....crime/drugs/prison/high school dropouts/welfare/wedlock/abortion, etc........none of it conducive to business ownership......... suggests otherwise, though.
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