It takes more than a language to unify a nation

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/26/2007 12:41 PM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>That reminds me -- do the right wing English-only radicals realize
>>that if they alienate the conservative, Replublican-voting,
>>Spanish-speaking Cuban refugees, they may lose Florida in the 2008 election?
>
>Also New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado & Nevada, even ultimately Texas.

True, but it takes no more than Florida to unify a nation.

Joel

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