recent use of wetback

[David Barnhart]

The first comment is not particularly surprising.  However, most current
dictionaries indicate that _wetback_ is usually "offensive" or otherwise to
be avoided unless one wants to appear intolerant.



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ther-ranch-article-1.1302370#commentpostform>



DKB



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