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Californians are the new Mexicans
Posted by | Posted in Society | Posted on 19-06-2009
California is the new Mexico, and Californians are the new Mexicans: They emigrated during boom times to what they saw as greener pastures. Even in good times, they were seen with annoyance by the locals. Now, when the tide has gone down and everyone is in dire straits, that local annoyance has turned to resentment. They shouldn’t be here. They should go back to where they came. They shouldn’t have come here in the first place. We don’t want any more of their kind.
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You think I’m going overboard with the comparisons? Read the following:
Bend [Oregon], a former timber town that now has 80,000 residents, was particularly popular among those drawn to the often rainy Northwest because it is located on the sunny side of the Cascade Range. Now the Mexicans who contributed to Oregon’s growth are in some cases adding to its economic struggle. As of May, Oregon had the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 12.4 percent, behind Michigan.
Not all of the newcomers are from Mexico, of course. Lost equity, lost jobs and the possibility of foreclosure also threaten people who moved here from just across the Cascade Range, on the wetter western side of Oregon, as well as some from Seattle or the East. Measuring Mexico’s economic impact on Oregon and its struggles is difficult, and economists say that Oregon, which has less than a tenth of the population of Mexico, has not always been directly affected by its neighbor’s fortunes.
“Mexico immigrants can never win in Oregon,” said Philip J. Romero, an economist who has advised governors in both states. “In a boom, ‘They are crowding the roads and bidding up house prices.’ In a bust, it’s: ‘They alone caused the price of my house to drop by hundreds of thousands of dollars. They came up here without a job, and now we can’t absorb them and they’re competing for my job.’”
“Shhh,” Biff Ingels, a transplant of four years, standing outside the main job counseling center here, said when asked where he had lived before. “Mexico,” he said in a whisper.
Zachary Lauritzen, a student teacher at Summit High School, on Bend’s west side — the side some residents call “Little Mexico” — said he was teaching a lesson in government when the topic prompted him to ask how many students had lived in Mexico.
“Half of them raised their hands,” Mr. Lauritzen said.
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The previous paragraphs could have been written almost anytime in the last decade, almost anywhere in the Southern US. However, they were originally not written about Mexicans. They were written about Californians.
Those lines were taken almost verbatim from a 6/18/2009 article in the New York Times.
24: Redemption dvd Why “almost”? Because the words “California” and “Californian” were replaced with “Mexico” and “Mexican”, respectively. This is how they read originally:
Bend, a former timber town that now has 80,000 residents, was particularly popular among those drawn to the often rainy Northwest because it is located on the sunny side of the Cascade Range. Now the Californians who contributed to Oregon’s growth are in some cases adding to its economic struggle. As of May, Oregon had the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 12.4 percent, behind Michigan. California, which has not released its May figures, ranked fifth in April.
Not all of the newcomers are from California, of course. Lost equity, lost jobs and the possibility of foreclosure also threaten people who moved here from just across the Cascade Range, on the wetter western side of Oregon, as well as some from Seattle or the East. Measuring California’s economic impact on Oregon and its struggles is difficult, and economists say that Oregon, which has less than a tenth of the population of California, has not always been directly affected by its neighbor’s fortunes.
“California immigrants can never win in Oregon,†said Philip J. Romero, an economist who has advised governors in both states. “In a boom, ‘They are crowding the roads and bidding up house prices.’ In a bust, it’s: ‘They alone caused the price of my house to drop by hundreds of thousands of dollars. They came up here without a job, and now we can’t absorb them and they’re competing for my job.’ â€
“Shhh,†Biff Ingels, a transplant of four years, standing outside the main job counseling center here, said when asked where he had lived before. “California,†he said in a whisper.
Zachary Lauritzen, a student teacher at Summit High School, on Bend’s west side — the side some residents call “Little California†— said he was teaching a lesson in government when the topic prompted him to ask how many students had lived in California.
“Half of them raised their hands,†Mr. Lauritzen said.
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Written by Jean Valjean
