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In article <620k8gF21l3veU1@mid.individual.net>,
Seth Hammond <lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>> Ted wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 16, 8:45?pm, "f. barnes" <fre...@centurytel.net> wrote:
>>>>> > On Feb 16, 4:49?pm, Stuart Jackson <bjackson...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>> I grew up in South Bend, Indiana.  I knew dozens of old Europeans who had 
>>> been in this country for years, and spoke no English at all.  They 
>>> communicated only with each other and offspring who grew up learning 
>>> English.  No one pissed and whined about it.

>>> Mexicans have been in Arizona far longer than gringos presently here. 
>>> Why don't all gringos here learn to speak Spanish?

>> Because there are far more people speaking english in the US than spanish.

>For how long?

Since about the middle of the 17th century.

Mexico neglected what the Spanish built up in what is
now the US, except for part of New Mexico.  It has
been estimated that at the time the California 
Republic was proclaimed that there were about 
25000 Americans in California and 5000 Mexicans.

After the war in which Mexico ceded much land, there
was the later Gadsden Purchase of a relatively small
amount of land in the southern parts of Arizona and
New Mexico; at that time, there were probably far
more English speakers in Arizona than Spanish.





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