One of the ironies of this Hunington/Tacarando thesis is that they can convince American who are not of English origin that they too, are "Anglos" and that the Anglo-Saxon tradition is some sort of given cultural heritage rather than an acquired one. Any people who has contact with many Hispanics in their every day life as I do knows that most of the American-born Hispanics, while able to speak Spanish, are not as fluent in Spanish as they are in English, especially with regard to reading and writing and intellectural and technical concepts. The rheoric and puedo cultural definitions of people like Huntington and his political disciple/demagogue are not only hostile to Hispanics, thay are hostile to even most "white" Americans who are not of English descent. Their discourse ignores the fact that the largest ethnic group in the United States is not people of English or British descent, but Germany descent, and that German was a commonly spoken language in the United States unitl World War 1, as Spanish is now. What do they have to say about the German part of the U.S. cultural legacy. Someone ought to do a study about that too.

Dear Editor:

The ultimate motivation for immigration reform is quite simple: demographics. The white people who vote Republican in the Red States are endanger of becoming demographic minorities in these states because of declining birth rates, immigration of other sorts of American into some of these states, emigration of young people from other states, and finally, an influx of Hispanics in every state now.

W. understands that the Republican Party needs to expand its circles of supporters. He reasons that if he can get a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote in some of these states, it will keep those states' electoral votes red. To do that, he needs to give them something, and that is some sort of legalization program.

On this issue W. is quite forward-looking in that he wishes to go beyond the white/anglo/christian paradigm which is the ethnic archetype of the American in the Republican Party. Unfortunately, his party has yet to realize that and because of it, they will suffer. No immigration, Hispanic or otherwise, will support a party which suggests that their cultural and ethnic background is somehow foreign to being included as a member of the American people.

Sincerely yours,

Arthur C. Hurwitz