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A nation divided by language?Debate: Without better assimilation, a Harvard professor fears, waves of Mexican immigrants could split the United States.
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| Last Edited | None Entered Jul 08, 2004 12:24pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Baltimore Sun |
| News Date | Thursday, July 8, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | SAN ELIZARIO, Texas - Should the worst fears of a Harvard professor come true, this desert crossroads could be the sentimental capital of a separatist movement aiming to detach the Southwest from the United States.
In a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Samuel P. Huntington took a worried look at the waves of Mexicans who have been crossing the Rio Grande - whose banks mark the outskirts of this dusty border town of 4,385, about 20 miles south of El Paso.
He fears that the increasing numbers of Spanish speakers in a band of states running from California through Arizona and New Mexico to Texas could bring our nation the unhappy experience of linguistically split societies, such as Canada and the former Yugoslavia.
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