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Olin wrote:
> "Richard Thomas" <newsuser@dicksonlife.com> wrote in message 
> news:on2om1plbb2cspdacq1p16v1l1g2qkk3s7@4ax.com...
> 
>>On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:06:34 GMT, "Faye" <mfcrabtree@worldnet.att.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Boston Blackie" <bblackie@mail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:bblackie-14139A.06415404112005@library.airnews.net...
>>>
>>>>This is called 'a rising tide lifts all boats,' and it is the reason any
>>>>America-loving people don't hate Mexicanization. Therefore Mexicans are
>>>>here to stay.
>>>>
>>>>Every day their numbers are growing. The Mexicanization of America is
>>>>inevitable.
>>>
>>>And just when we were coming to grips with the Europeanization of 
>>>American!
>>
>>Well, pity me then. It's only a few years ago I was suffering the
>>Americanization of Europe. Wherever will it end?
>>
>>Rich
>>
> 
> 
> It doesn't end. It just moves around. Californians, for example, stole that 
> state from the Mexicans, and more "Californians" moved in from everywhere 
> else. Everybody was happy as clams right up to the Great Dust Bowl, which 
> brought half the Oakies in the modern world across the desert to California. 
> They picked peaches, dodged boards being swung by the locals, spawned still 
> more "new" Californians who grew up to look down their noses at everybody 
> else... even though they're still just Oakies, once removed. Now that Nissan 
> is probably moving headquarters to Middle Tennessee, some of those former 
> Oakies (now probably three times removed... maybe more) are all atwitter at 
> having to move to Electric Bubba Land. Those who favor keeping jobs will 
> make the trek, wearing shirts made from processed falafel and elderberry 
> leaves, explaining how much better it used to be.
> 
> And, thus, will begin the next great culture clash... sort of in reverse.
> 
> All this said, I can hardly wait for the video of the first Mardi Gras 
> Parade in Utah!

Thanks for the mental image.



> 
> Those examples are just in the states... but it's a microcosm, of sorts, of 
> what goes on everywhere. Folks move to a new town, pee in every local bowl 
> of Cheerios they can find and wait to bitch and moan about the newcomers who 
> follow them.
> 
> Said by one who actually knows what "Froggy Went A Courtin" was really all 
> about. ;^) 
> 
> 


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