Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Dude, I pretty much grew up in Florida, with the exception of about 12 years living outside of Florida at varying stages of my life I have always lived in this state. When I was a young kid living in Miami the Hispanic population was very small, I never heard anyone speaking Spanish in South Miami when I was growing up there. When I graduated HS I was living in Puerto Rico, on return visits to Miami it was hardly any different than Puerto Rico, that is how quickly things changed in such a short period of time... Now in Tampa, Orlando, and most of South Florida Spanish is becoming the most widely spoken language, English has all but disappeared. I was working in Orlando a couple of weeks back at a commercial location, after several days of only hearing a few of the firms clients speak English I finally asked the manager in Spanish, where have all the Gringo's in Orlando gone.... Her reply of course in Spanish was, "They have all left, They don't like Florida..." "They don't like Florida?" I asked, her reply was "I don't know but they have all gone away."

LOL. I was in a Subway a couple of years back in Cashiers North Carolina, up in the mountains, 40 years ago there were no illegals there, but that evening there were about 10 customers in the restaurant, I was the only one speaking English.

It is happening all over, not just in the large urban areas.... and the number is far greater than 11 or 12 million, I would love to find the analysis, but someone was looking at peripheral indicators, things like non English speaking student enrollment into schools, medical claims etc.. and did some statistical extrapolations and estimated the number to be closer to 25 to 30 million illegals in this country which would not surprise me... I am not saying that is the case, but I do suspect the number to be closer to 20 million than it is to 10 million.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Why am I not surprised, and those that are ok with it aren't affected by it yet.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

It sounds like you are suggesting that anyone who can't speak English is an illegal. I doubt that that is what you meant but I thought I'd ask. Yes it gripes me that people living here can't be bothered to speak English but they are the ones who lose not me. I don't automatically assume that they are illegal.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

No, not at all, I would suspect that most are here legally, but the explosive growth of Hispanics that is happening all over this country can only be explained by illegal immigration. It is not just Hispanics either, yesterday I was working with a Jamaican gentleman who said that he was alarmed by how many Jamaicans that he knows of here illegally being deported, something that is of great surprise to me.... Anyway, it is not just Hispanics, and I know that the legal Hispanic population here in this country is larger than the Black population, but when you combine the legal population, most of whom speak perfect English as most were born and raised here, with the illegal population of probably close to 10% of our US population, then you come up with a figure of about 25% or greater of the US population being Hispanic and I think that number is probably something closer to what we see in our daily lives in America.

NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian

NO! It sounds like you are a race-baiter, dirtpusher.

Sanford504

I'm with you 100%.

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soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

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