AZ freak Pierce (sp?) favors "wetback" deportation.

[lonestarnot]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2262176&mesg_id=2262176

[EFerrari]

1. I wonder what vote he's going for?

Funny, when I visited Mesa, there was every kind of citizen there.

And a really ugly shopping mall shaped like a pueblo and painted bright purple. lol

[lonestarnot]

2. Mesa is full of mormons. The morman temple is there. Maybe

mormons? They wouldn't allow black people in their church for the longest time, maybe they just don't like dark skin. Place looks like a freak'n ghetto over there in Messa. ick.

[Cleita]

4. Having been to Utah a few times, (sometimes you can't

avoid it trying to get someplace else) I really noticed that Utah is not only 99.99% white, they are the whitest people I have ever seen anywhere. I've never been to any Scandanavian country, but from the Sandanavians I have met here, I can imagine it's the same. There seems to be a predominance of people who are milky white, with really pale blue eyes and light brown to blond hair.

I never felt them to be racist though. I thought that maybe they lacked day to day contact with darker skinned people. I don't know what their actual feelings are about other races. I mean what degree does it go to? Would they work and go to school side by side with brown people? Would they mind living in a mixed neighborhood? Would they intermarry with them?

However, there was that story in the news of the marine or soldier in Bahrain who married and smuggled a princess out of that country and brought her to the USA. He was Mormon and actually explained that his beliefs and her Muslim beliefs were similar so I guess race didn't matter to him, so they probably don't have racial bias but a moral/religious one about marrying outside of their church. I do believe that they have changed their stance on African Americans and welcome them to all the degrees of importance within their church.

I dunno. I'm sure there are Mormons on this board who can explain it better.

[Cleita]

3. Also, it's an RVer's hangout.

When my husband and I were RVing around the country, we got to know the trailer/motorhome crowd. Most of them are conservative retired middle Americans with rabid religious beliefs. Yep, many were fundies. Worse than that I think they had more reverence for Rush Limbaugh than Jesus Christ. Also, I noticed that most of them had grown children who wouldn't speak to them because the kids got fed up with their narrow minded views.

They were unequivocably racist and didn't know that they were airing their views in front of a Hispanic, me. Just because my name isn't Spanish and I'm light skinned as well as my husband being Irish, they assumed I was one of them. I managed to get in a few digs in every chance I got without blowing my "cover".

This is probably the crowd they are pandering to.