Language Politics

The recent death of Sergio Bendixen (rest in peace) was the occasion to review how political polling in languages other than English has arisen. But hey, shouldn’t  American voters speak and understand  English? For the entire blog entry, click  here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published August 7th, 2017, on VDARE.COM.

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President Trump delivered a speech to Congress and the American people on February 28th.  The Democratic Party responded with two speeches – one in English and one in Spanish. The Spanish-language speech was delivered by a non-citizen, Astrid Silva, an illegal alien afforded provisional amnesty by Obama’s unilateral DACA (DREAMer) amnesty. So think about it, […]

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The importance of the Hispanic Vote and of using the Spanish language in political campaigns became conventional wisdom in U.S. politics. But in his recent election victory, Donald Trump won with a campaign that did not produce campaign ads in Spanish and didn’t even have a Spanish-language section on the campaign website. Nevertheless, Trump appears […]

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Allan on October 19th, 2016

Donald Trump, to his credit, is running an English-only campaign, which means no ads in Spanish and no website en español. With Hillary, of course, that’s not the case, and the Spanish section  of her “Hillary for America” website  is quite informative, as it shows us what she wants to emphasize to Spanish-speaking voters about her immigration policies. […]

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  The Pew Research Center has released a political survey of Hispanics.  There’s a lot there. The main message is that Hispanic political attitudes aren’t that different than they were four years ago. As far as the election, according to the Pew poll, of Latino registered voters, 58% are for Clinton with only 19% for […]

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Both major political parties have taken to the production of Spanish-language campaign ads.  I totally disagree with this.   Campaigns should be run in English.  It’s the language of our country.  Campaigning in Spanish further balkanizes our nation and allows candidates to say or at least emphasize one thing in one language and another thing […]

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A bizarre incident in the February 13th  GOP debate involving Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz illustrates yet again the problems of using Spanish as a political language in U.S. politics. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published February 18th, 2016, on VDARE.COM.

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Allan on February 9th, 2016

The day after Ted Cruz  won the Iowa caucuses,  La Opinión, the biggest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S., published an article  advancing the point of view that Ted Cruz is not a real Latino. That of course leads to further questions.  What is a Latino?  Is it a racial, a cultural or a political classification?  And who […]

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Allan on April 21st, 2015

The use of the English language has been a great asset in maintaining the unity of the United States.  Now, however, the use of the Spanish language as a political language in the United States is increasing, contributing to the balkanization of the electorate. At least if politicians are lying or distorting their record in one […]

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Allan on April 18th, 2015

I found the  recent news that likely 2016 GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush registered to vote  in 2009  as “Hispanic” unsurprising.    After all, Jeb just seems to identify with the Hispanic community more than the historic American nation that built this country. Therefore, it doesn’t seem unlikely that Jeb would have registered as “Hispanic”. […]

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