But what I am very worried about is the possibility that Biden will lose, in part because people don't like major change, including seeing their towns become Spanish speaking. As a 12 year old, I lived in Paris for a year. I'd always been interested in foreigners at home. I'd go up to them in Harvard square, and ask them where they were …
But what I am very worried about is the possibility that Biden will lose, in part because people don't like major change, including seeing their towns become Spanish speaking. As a 12 year old, I lived in Paris for a year. I'd always been interested in foreigners at home. I'd go up to them in Harvard square, and ask them where they were from, and I didn't understand why the Parisians never spoke to me. Years later, I came to understand it. Paris was flooded with Americans. Our border towns are in the same situation, and it's not helping the Democratic Party, which encourages the migration.
Like the Irish with the "dirty, garlic-smelling, superstitious Italians":---who practiced their religion in the streets with processions (cf. Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street; popular religion/people's religion at its best.) Communities get really dislocated, etc. until they get through the process---which seems to be harder or more contentious now---but the historian in me says, only it only seems less so in the past .....
But what I am very worried about is the possibility that Biden will lose, in part because people don't like major change, including seeing their towns become Spanish speaking. As a 12 year old, I lived in Paris for a year. I'd always been interested in foreigners at home. I'd go up to them in Harvard square, and ask them where they were from, and I didn't understand why the Parisians never spoke to me. Years later, I came to understand it. Paris was flooded with Americans. Our border towns are in the same situation, and it's not helping the Democratic Party, which encourages the migration.
Like the Irish with the "dirty, garlic-smelling, superstitious Italians":---who practiced their religion in the streets with processions (cf. Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street; popular religion/people's religion at its best.) Communities get really dislocated, etc. until they get through the process---which seems to be harder or more contentious now---but the historian in me says, only it only seems less so in the past .....