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No, ,S :ngust 2I«»rnPriulfcl ill llicl iiiitcJ Sl.il,.-, uf AmericarnPOLEMICS & EXCHANGESrnOn Hispanics and the GOPrnSamuel Francis {Principalities & Powers,rnApril 2000) is correct in much of his analysisrnof the weaknesses of Gov. George W.rnBush’s polihcal strateg}- for attracting Hispanicrnvotes. He is also correct in debunkingrnthe endlessly repeated canardrnthat Bush won 49 percent (rather than 39rnpercent) of the Texas Hispanic ‘ote in hisrnsuccessful 1998 reelection effort against arnvery weak and underfunded Democraticrnopponent.rnHowever, since I have made ver)’similarrncriticisms of Bush’s strategv and successes,rnI was quite surprised at being treatedrnwith hostilitv’ and placed in the Bushrncamp on these issues. I would suspectrnthat my very strong opposition to ethnicrnseparatist policies such as affirmahve actionrnand bilingual education is simplyrnnot good enough for someone like Dr.rnFrancis, whose views on ethnic issuesrnseem aligned with those of the “white nationalist”rncamp. Thus, he appears to bernthe counterpart to the LULAC activistsrnwhom he decries.rnP’inally, Dr. F”rancis doubts that therndramatic fall in Hispanic support forrnGOP candidates (especially in California)rnis direcriy linked to Proposition 187,rnbut the facts prove otherwise. Until thern1994 campaign for Prop. 187, almost anyrnviable Republican candidate runningrnstatewide in California could expect 40rnto 50 percent of the Hispanic vote. ModeraternRepublican Pete Wilson receivedrn47 percent in his 1990 gubernatorialrnrace, and conservative Bruce Herschensohnrnwon 40 percent in his 1992 U.S.rnSenate race. But since 1994, Republicanrncandidates have rarely won even 20 percentrnof the Hispanic vote. Republicanrnsupport for the harsh provisions of Prop.rn187, which would have expelled 300,000rnimmigrant children from public schoolsrnand which was supported by a campaignrnfilled with harsh anh-Hispanic rhetoricrnand images, is the obvious cause.rn- R o n K, UnzrnChairman, English for the ChildrenrnPalo Alto, CArnDr. Francis Replies:rnLike manv neoconservative and libertarianrnproponents of mass immigration whornsay they want and expect immigrants tornassimilate, Mr. Unz doesn’t grasp thatrnyou can’t have immigration from non-rnWestern countries on the scale the UnitedrnStates has received for the last 30 yearsrn(more than 30 million legal immigrants)rnand actually get assimilation as a result.rnThe sheer magnitude of the migrationrnmeans that the immigrants’ non-Westernrncultural habits will be reinforced by thernimmense communities and powerfulrnmovements they form inside this countr’.rnThis will take place even if governmentsrnand politicians do not actively encouragernit with bilingual education, affirmativernaction, multiculturalist curricula,rnand similar programs designed to retardrnassimilation and weaken national andrncultural bonds. With such programs, assimilationrnbecomes not only impossiblernbut even taboo.rnRon Unz has indeed resisted such anti-rnassimilation programs, but the simplest,rnmost obvious, and most effectivernmeans of encouraging assimilationrnwould be to reduce the numbers of immigrantsrnsignificantly, and neither Mr.rnUnz nor his colleagues in the pro-immigrahonrnlobby will countenance doing so.rnhideed, he remains a vocal supporter ofrnmass immigration and a vocal opponentrnof any measure designed to slow it downrnor halt it.rnI am rmaware that I treated him withrn”hostilitv” in my April article. The threernreferences in my column mention himrnas “a pro-immigration activist” who hadrnwritten a less than accurate sentencernabout Governor Bush’s showing amongrnHispanic voters, as an opponent of bilingualrneducation, and as one who hasrnblamed Bob Dole’s lack of Hispanicrnvotes in 1996 on Republican support forrnProp. 187 in 1994. I see nothing “hostile”rnor untrue in any of these references,rnunless reminding readers of Mr. Unz’srnzealousness for immigration is taken asrnan act of hostility.rnNevertheless, as long as we are callingrnnames like “white nationalist,” whyrnshould I not call Mr. Unz an outrightrntraitor to the American people because ofrnhis zeal to import a new populationrnwhose language, culture, and politicalrnloyalties are radically different from, ifrnnot often outright hostile to, those of thern4/CHRONlCLESrnrnrn