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The demographic revolution continues:
In many areas of Miami, Spanish has become the predominant language, replacing English in everyday life. Anyone from Latin America could feel at home on the streets, without having to pronounce a single word in English. …
But this situation, so pleasing to Latin American immigrants, makes some English speakers feel marginalized. In the 1950s, it’s estimated that more than 80 percent of Miami-Dade County residents were non-Hispanic whites. But in 2006, the Census Bureau estimates that number was only 18.5 percent, and in 2015 it is forecast to be 14 percent. Hispanics now make up about 60 percent.
“The Anglo population is leaving,” said Juan Clark, a sociology professor at Miami Dade College. “One of the reactions is to emigrate toward the north. They resent the fact that (an American) has to learn Spanish in order to have advantages to work. If one doesn’t speak Spanish, it’s a disadvantage.”
Kinda reminds you of Kosovo, doesn’t it?
roho on 29 May 2008 at 5:23 pm #
It has a domino effect also. The would-be-residents of South Florida are now leaving the Northeast for retirement in the Northwest Florida Panhandle and Alabama coastline instead.(We rednecks had them contained in south Florida for decades.)
Now, while standing in a grocery line or at the post office, all we can hear is “We did it differently back home!” (Then why don’t you go back?)……..Everything is always better back home in “Cosmopolitan”, yet they leave?
I’ve never met a single Southerner that said, “My goal is to work my entire life in the South so I can retire to the Northeast.” It’s their own decades of liberal policies that turned “Lower New York” into “Havana”!
Seccesion seems our only option.