[PRCo] Re: White House

[Schneider Fred]

Thanks Dennis.

I would hope that some of you have also been watching that fabulous  
PBS series on the British monarchy.   Equally impressive because we  
came from there ... among many other places ... well, at least the  
language we abuse came from England ... or we like to think we came  
from there.    After my 15 visits to the U. K., it fits me just like  
an old shoe does.   But I have no British ancestry unless you count  
the 25 percent from northern Ireland.    Actually only three of our  
states are dominantly English in ancestry!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_American_ancestries

The next two charts are amazing.   Through 1940, 84 percent of us  
came from Europe.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0201398.html

That ended with the 2000 census.  The war brides from Germany died  
off.   European girls decided they had it pretty damn good where they  
were and chose to stay home.  By 2000 European immigrants had dropped  
completely off the top ten list.  There were roughly 12 million  
people whose language was south American Spanish in the 2000  
census.   I wonder when we will have our first Spanish-speaking  
president?   Oooops.   I forgot.   George W. Bush does speak Spanish.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0900547.html

Fred





On Nov 20, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

> This is not traction related, but I know many of you enjoy history.
>
> http://whitehouse.c-span.org/default.asp
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> No matter what your political views, you should mark your calendars  
> for this impressive program put together by C-SPAN on the White House.
>
> I have visited there 3 times, once with my students, and have  
> always come away awestruck over the history contained therein.
> Dennis F. Cramer
>       Trombone
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