Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
I lived in Miami for years in an area known as 'Little Havana'. It had been all Anglo but 'white flight' and the influx of refugees changed it to being largely Cuban. Now all of Miami is predominantly Latino. Hard working and industrious people. Many of them weren't bilingual but they didn't have to be in that environment.

Now here in the WPB area Mexicans are coming in large numbers. I guess that is all over the USA from what I hear. I have a friend whose grandparents came over from Italy and Ireland. Obviously he is of Italian/Irish ancestry. Funny part is that he is always railing against immigrants and immigration. He doesn't see the irony of this.

I read in the history of these sometimes United States that anti immigration sentiment was high against Italians, Irish, Russians and what have you in the late 1800s early 1900s. Some things never change. I guess there is a tribal instinct that is an innate part of all of us.
I grew up in an unincorporated part of Ft. Lauderdale and post-Andrew the population in Broward exploded, as did the amount of Latin Americans. I think the issue with those older European generations was that they felt they did it the right way going through Ellis Island whereas Latin Americans have the stigma of having arrived illegally.