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Mainstream Memphis often misses connection with city's Spanish-speaking subculture
The Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | Sunday, September 23, 2007 | Daniel Connolly

Posted on 09/23/2007 6:52:13 AM PDT by Sybeck1

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1 posted on 09/23/2007 6:52:17 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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God help me, I hate Memphis. Worst city I’ve ever lived near.


2 posted on 09/23/2007 7:00:27 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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Hispanics should learn to adapt to Memphis’ own superior music culture rather than import it.


3 posted on 09/23/2007 7:10:25 AM PDT by muawiyah
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I hate Memphis. Worst city I’ve ever lived near.

Drove through it once and tryed to stop to eat on I-40. Wound up not stopping till we got to Jackson. Must have been the interstate was placed where it was there for a reason...

4 posted on 09/23/2007 7:11:48 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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“The size of this population has led to the development of a parallel society where Spanish dominates”

Obviously the “journalist” sees no real problem with this “parallel society”, it is just a force of nature that shouldn’t be questioned.

I just love guilty Lib “journalists” who desperately want to feel good about themselves and intentionally never ask the questions most of us want to hear answers to.

THIS IS THE REAL WAR.

5 posted on 09/23/2007 7:19:15 AM PDT by Carbonado
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"It is clear our message of maintaining a strong national defense, securing our border without amnesty, holding China accountable on trade, and protecting life are resonating with the voters. Our campaign is one of issues, not flash and expense. We don't have a jet or an army of consultants and paid staff. We do have the conservative message that is true. In the end, that will be what Americans want."

DUNCAN HUNTER '08

6 posted on 09/23/2007 7:44:36 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Support Duncan Hunter in YOUR State....http://duncanhunter.meetup.com/1/)
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To: Eaker; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; ApesForEvolution; archy; backhoe; Badray; t_skoz; Becki; Jack Black; ...
Estimates of the metro area's Hispanic population range from 34,000 to 100,000, and about one in 10 babies born in Shelby County last year was Hispanic. The size of this population has led to the development of a parallel society where Spanish dominates.

Aztlan keeps growing and growing! Another mile marker on the road to CW2.


7 posted on 09/23/2007 7:46:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: muawiyah
"Hispanics should learn to adapt to Memphis' own superior music"

They already adapted the music of German settlers in Texas, a long time ago.

That's why the article described the music as "something like a polka band". Accordions included.

8 posted on 09/23/2007 8:10:20 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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Our nation has survived “China Town” and “Little Italy” although there was a wide spread resentment for those enclaves of parallel culture. We have had “old Munichberg”.
Now we have little Mexico.

But there is a problem. Rather than the previous ethnic groups assimilating eventually into American Culture, The Mexicans have declared they are forcing us to adapt to their culture. Never in US history have previous ethnic groups demanded we teach their language or hire interpreters or print election ballots in Spanish. They are trying to force us to learn their language rather than learning our language.
And they are doing it illegally when they cross the border illegally. All the other ethnic groups entered America legally and promised to follow our laws as a reward for citizenship.


9 posted on 09/23/2007 8:19:58 AM PDT by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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a polka band on amphetamines.

Probably exactly what they were.

Most of the Ocktoberfest bands in Southern California are just Mexicans wearing lederhosen.

10 posted on 09/23/2007 9:13:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: o_zarkman44
I agree 100% with what you say.

My point is that the invasion itself of the illegals and the illegal’s attitude of aggrieved entitlement is aided, abetted and encouraged by the Libs, both in the government and especially the media, hence the “article” which is just propaganda encouraging the illegals and attempting to silence the “natives”.

That is the real war. The illegal invasion is just one more facet to that war, and it is but one of many.

Leftists are not just well intentioned, misguided souls with hearts of gold, they are foolish self-aggrandizing narcissists who have no compunction about destroying your way of life in their endless explorations of their own innate wonderfulness (Yes they really do believe that THEY are the second coming), which is their raison D’etre.

They are the enemy.

11 posted on 09/23/2007 9:31:16 AM PDT by Carbonado
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East TN does not claim Memphis...

Memphis is in AR, not TN...

:)

But the illegal alien invasion problems are the same in many parts of TN now...

I live in a border county...

My county is a sanctuary county..my city a sanctuary city..

Thanks to TN Gov Bredesen, who vetoed two strong illegal alien laws during 2006, our state of TN is a sanctuary state..

And so the illegal alien hordes pour into TN...bringing their “culture” and their illegal way of life...pushing American students out of classes where they once had a seat, and crowding our ER’s....

The sale of presciption drugs in their stores to unqualified customers is excused by our local 10th District Attorney as “cultural” behavior...they do it that way in Mexico, so it’s OK to do the same in TN..

Instead of insisting that the illegal aliens learn English, our elected officials encourage the locals to go to the “multicultural” center and learn Spanish!!!

The refusal to establish 287g in our city and county will lead to deaths and destruction any day now...but that’s OK...as long as the dead are only American citizens and the illegal aliens (a protected group) are not inconvenienced..Who cares?

The loud music? The least of our collective worries...

(Actually as a teenager, I had several Herb Albert and the Tiquana Brass albums)

Strike up the band...We’re in for a bumpy, multiculture first future..


12 posted on 09/23/2007 10:15:15 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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>Hispanics should learn to adapt

Learn to bow to our new masters. Its coming.


13 posted on 09/23/2007 11:19:56 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Travis McGee

BUMP


14 posted on 09/23/2007 11:38:31 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: Sybeck1
Mainstream Memphis often misses connection with city's Spanish-speaking subculture

"Spanish-speaking subculture" - ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,
plus a few legal residents and citizens, maybe some from the
anti-Castro days.
15 posted on 09/23/2007 11:40:59 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Travis McGee

Lots of mile markers that we will measure history.


16 posted on 09/23/2007 1:53:18 PM PDT by CodeToad
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"...but no large-scale plan exists to integrate the newcomers into society, and efforts to communicate in Spanish are uneven. "

What contradictory B S unless you're mentally ill and believe the way to integrate colonists is to speak "their" language. Unless this an end is put to this stuff, there will be and end to the U.S.. It will become some kind of third world cesspool. Actually, much of it already has.

17 posted on 09/23/2007 4:25:04 PM PDT by isrul
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Yeah, it happened to us already. My people (several of the different varieties anyway) were already well settled and had been here for centuries, decades, and at least 6 months, when the English-speaking folks arrived.

They forced their stuff down everybody's throat, took over, and demanded we all become little cookie-cutter Englishmen.

Didn't work.

18 posted on 09/23/2007 5:02:32 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Travis McGee

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....


19 posted on 09/23/2007 6:33:23 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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"...A tall, lanky 42-year-old from Chihuahua, Mexico, Loya matched alligator-skin belt and boots with a white cowboy hat.."

Guilty of a fashion hate crime!

20 posted on 09/24/2007 8:07:28 AM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=-
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