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B Stieg

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11. If Mr. Barletta had any sense of history...

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 06:23 PM

Jan 2013

... he would remember that the racial invective hurled at Italian immigrants (of which my father was one and which I would assume is something of a similar case in the Representative's family) was the term "WOP" which stood for "without papers" and was designed to remind those immigrants of their non-American origins.

How soon we forget, eh Mr. Representative?

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Isn't Barletta echoing the same stuff that nativists would say about his grandparents? alp227 Jan 2013 #2

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That is the crux of the matter indeed! BlueMTexpat Jan 2013 #14

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Enjoy keeping losing elections Barletta. <N/M> albear Jan 2013 #9

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Barletta and Rubio. Aren't those Cherokee names? Or maybe Lakota? tclambert Jan 2013 #13

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