12-05-2004, 03:34 AM
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cribsheet@aol.com (Cribsheet) wrote in message news:<20041204125028.09736.00000844@mb-m20.aol.com>...
> AMERICAS FUTURE
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> Complete article at: http://vdare.com/guzzardi/041203_salinas.htm
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> Report From Occupied America: The Fall Of Salinas
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> Salinas is lost.
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> Located in California's Central Coastal Valley and known as the Salad Bowl to
> the World, Salinas is the state's first casualty of the financial and cultural
> consequences of illegal immigration.
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> Salinas-on a smaller scale but even more dramatically than Los Angeles, San
> Diego or San Francisco- has been overwhelmed. The poor and (occasional) farm
> workers from Central America and Mexico came to Salinas in huge numbers in
> recent decades. But this time, they never went home.
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> Salinas-birthplace of American novelist John Steinbeck and the town that hosts
> wranglers from across the country every summer at the 100-year-old California
> Rodeo-has been transformed into a place I, a native-born Californian, no longer
> recognize.
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> Here is a snapshot of Salinas today:
Paul
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