Movie Asks: What if Every Latino Vanished from State?

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[FITZ]

Notice -- there is nothing even close to a Republican or a Conservative in Mexico --- not running for office, and not voting. All their political parties are some kind of socialists or communists and they have free elections there. We know how they are likely to vote by looking at how they have been voting. You just don't magically become a Republican by swimming the Rio Grande --- or what it's being called now --- the Rio Bravo.

[GOPJ]

Cheap labor stops innovation. California would have sophisticated machines picking grapes if it weren't for cheap labor.

[Ed Straker]

The only time I've heard the term 'wetback' used was by a Hispanic friend, born in Texas, referring to illegals from Mexico. He also used the F word in front of it. No one hates illegals more than U.S. born Hispanics, and I don't blame them.

[Polybius]

I'm Italian and I'm sick of Hispanics being called Latin....

Actually, being "Italian" would not necessarily have made your ancestors any more "Latin" than my ancestors from Hispania.

"Latin" only refers to the inhabitants of Latium.

The Latins (Romans) then went on to conquer the rest of Italia that consisted of the Sabines, the Oscans, the Volscians, the Umbrians, the Etruscans, the Ligurians, the Faliscans, the Messapics, the Venetics, the Raetics, the Celts of Cis-Alpine Gaul and the Greeks of Magna Graecia.

Most of Italia and Hispania was populated by "Latins by conquest" except for the actual Latin conquerors that settled in the conquered regions.

Mexicans later became "Latin by conquest by the Latins by conquest".

The fact remains that the Mexican mestizo speaks a language that was passed on (with evolution) directly from the Roman Legionnaire to the Hispaniensi to the Castillian Conquistadors to the Mexican Indians and is therefore a language that traces it's roots directly back to ancient Latium.

The Italian American who only speaks English has broken that linguistic link.

Bronze Teruncius of Capua, Campania, Italia, circa 216-211 BC, with Oscan legend.

[antaresequity]

I would have to go to Taco Bell for a burrito [sic], instead La Haustica on Lincoln.

[ampat]

Exactly. The title should read "What if every illegal latino vanished from the state (including gangs)".

[Betis70]

>>I'm Italian and I'm sick of Hispanics being called Latin,

Maybe your Roman ancestors shouldn't have done such a good job kicking Iberian butt. ;-)

I had a Romanian girlfriend for a while in grad school, and she was confused by the whole 'Latino' term as well.

What I find funny is when Mexicans or Peruvians (or most anyone from Latin America) get all bent out of shape because I call myself an American, since "America" can refer to the whole north and south. And yet they see no problem taking the term 'Latino' and effectively ignoring Italians, French, Romanians, and Portugese. For some reason I think they include Brazilians with the term.

[Betis70]

The Romans gave my favorite soccer team their name (and part of my screen name).

Baetica.

[Chi-Town Lady]

I'm game!

I say that they give it a try and see what happens. I see a lot less violence, more money in the budget for LEGAL residents, less congestion, and ENGLISH spoken everywhere!

[Chi-Town Lady]

"What if all the whites vanished?"

Who'd pay all the bills?