Re: Two Europes- This sounds like the Italian "Northern League" programm scaled up.... not sure how desireable an outcome this would be.
Again, just imagine a similar predicament in the US. Suppose for a moment that Europe and the US switch places: ETA-like terrorism hit Europe with 911-like ferocity... Therefore, EU leaders brand Hispanic terrorism as the biggest threat to world peace... EU intelligence claim that Hispanic terrorists who perpetrated terror in Europe were trained in the US Sun Belt where they still operate "sleeper cells"... So EU chief Barroso urged the US to chase after them and collaborate with EU authorities in their holy crusade against terror... Now, how would such a reverse scenario play out in the US?
Most of the Hispanic immigration settles in the South/South West of the US, hence it's not really a big issue for, say, Montana, right? So, you'll have the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Illinois, Vermont,... that will eagerly jumped on the Latino-bashing bandwagon --they'll be the American equivalents of Denmark, Poland and the rest of the so-called "New Europe".... Governors from the Northern states will join the anti-Hispanic party and say, "hell, we must crack down on Latino immigration... Enough is enough!" However, opinion in the Sun Belt will be a mixed bag: of course, far-right and nativist militants will side with the anti-Hispanic crowd, yet the business community, the farmers who rely on cheap Mexican labor, together with liberal activists, will cry foul and claim that all the fuss about "Hispanic terrorism" is but a European conspiracy... So much so that, at the end of day, you'll have two Americas: a Northern one that caters to Europe's interests, and a Southern one that finds its best "national interest" is to build friendly and mutually gainful relations with Mexico and Latin America at large....
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