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Friday, January 30, 2004
 
The Problem with "Hispanic Tuesday" (February 3, 2004)

New Mexico and Arizona will hold presidential primary election on February 3rd. Expect to hear lots of Spanish between now and then. Only one problem, as noted by Albuquerque Journal on December 21st, "Campaign Gurus Typecast Hispanics":

[A]nyone who has spent any time in New Mexico knows that a huge and growing slice of the Hispanic demographic here doesn't speak Spanish and doesn't access Spanish-language media the way recent immigrants do.

Eighty-four percent of Hispanics in New Mexico are native born.

|posted by Jim on 5:20 PM| Link
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