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2. Isn't Barletta echoing the same stuff that nativists would say about his grandparents?

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 12:56 PM

Jan 2013

Barletta is an Italian last name, and last century there was plenty of anti-Italian bigotry in the nation.

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