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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (168541)	12/3/2008 12:06:43 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I thought you were in LA. Mybad if you are not. Sorry to inform you, but the other states already are. My own little town in eastern Oregon being a fine example. It is dominated by labor intensive ag (orchards). Thirty years ago there were essentially no Hispanics here, and all the orchard labor was done by whites. As competitive pressures built, and other jobs paying better lured the whites away, the growers turned to illegal Hispanics. And yes, in the early years they were dang close to 100% illegal. Of course, the amnesties converted lots of them to legals, and various other progams encouraged more legal mechanisms so the Republican farmers could benefit. So the situation now is that the town is about 35-40% Hispanic (in one generation) and over 50% of the K-12 enrollment is now Hispanic, and this was 95% the result of about 50 farming families, who, using impeccable logic, obtained excellent business success by paying cheaper wagers than they would have had to to induce local people to work for them, thus staying competitive on the world markets, and making themselves a nice tidy bundle of money. They of course also always voted against leftist attempts to raise the minimum wage using the same impeccable logic, and with an eye towards their continued business success. Now the schools are overloaded, and guess what, the rest of the white community (and for aught I know, the 50 growers themselves) vote down every attempt to issue bonds to build new schools. Crime is going up, and with it security bars and gated communities. It is becoming a much different place than it used to be. What kind of pisses me off is that such a small group of people, using impeccable logic in pursuit of their own business success, have given away our community to a different culture, all without the input of the other 95% of the citizens of this community.