Garcia and Rodriguez now 8th and 9th most common surnames in America.

[December]

In Name Count, Garcias Catching Up With Joneses

Step aside Moore and Taylor. Welcome Garcia and Rodriguez.

Smith remains the most common surname in the United States, according to a new analysis released yesterday by the Census Bureau. But for the first time, two Hispanic surnames — Garcia and Rodriguez — are among the top 10 most common in the nation, and Martinez nearly edged out Wilson for 10th place.

The number of Hispanics living in the United States grew by 58 percent in the 1990s to nearly 13 percent of the total population, and cracking the list of top 10 names suggests just how pervasively the Latino migration has permeated everyday American culture.

Garcia moved to No. 8 in 2000, up from No. 18, and Rodriguez jumped to No. 9 from 22nd place. The number of Hispanic surnames among the top 25 doubled, to 6.

Compiling the rankings is a cumbersome task, in part because of confidentiality and accuracy issues, according to the Census Bureau, and it is only the second time it has prepared such a list. While the historical record is sketchy, several demographers said it was probably the first time that any non-Anglo name was among the 10 most common in the nation. “It’s difficult to say, but it’s probably likely,” said Robert A. Kominski, assistant chief of social characteristics for the census.

READ MORE -

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html?_r=1&hp?hp&oref=slogin#

[Scorpion]

Interesting but not unexpected given the influx of hispanic immigrants.

[Lasher]

Interesting but not unexpected given the influx of hispanic immigrants.


They are not Hispanic immigrants, they're "illegal aliens."

[December]

They are not Hispanic immigrants, they're "illegal aliens."

Not everyone thinks so...

From the speech of Jose Angel Gultierrez who is professor U of Texas during a meeting:

"The border remains a military zone. We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we're a new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights. Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us of color, female and male.

This is our homeland. We cannot—we will not—and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here.

We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."

Video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIW-BZ8oLrk


http://www.americanpatrol.com/FEATURES/020815-JOSE-ANGEL-RABID-RECON/JoseAngelGutierrez.gif


José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party a Mexican-American third party movement that supported candidates for elective office in Texas, California, and other areas of the Southwestern and Midwestern United States.

Gutiérrez is a 1962 graduate of Crystal City High School in Crystal City, Texas. He has also earned degrees from Texas A&M University–Kingsville (B.A. 1966), St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas (M.A. 1968), the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D. 1976) and the University of Houston, Bates College of Law, Houston, Texas (J.D. 1988). He has done postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Colegio de México, University of Washington, and Centro de Estudios Económicos y Sociales del Tercer Mundo in Mexico City, Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_%C3%81ngel_Guti%C3%A9rrez

[Truth_and_Power]

We gotta get those lazy brownies outta here huh December?

What we need are some more militant scotch-irish folk like you and me.

/SARC

[AnnEsthesia]

Of course, not all of them are illegal. I know many Garcias and Rodriguezes that are American citizens.

[ViolaLee]

Jerry Garcia, for example, wasn't an illegal alien.

Sounds like there's some major prejudice going on here. You racists oughta be ashamed.

[AnnEsthesia]

I work with a Rodriguez. He is half hispanic and half italian. He is also fully American.

[Truth_and_Power]

I work with a Rodriguez. He is half hispanic and half italian. He is also fully American.


Funny I don't think December will like him anyway..

[December]

Of course, not all of them are illegal. I know many Garcias and Rodriguezes that are American citizens.


AnnEsthesia, it is not the citizenship that is the question. Mexicans look at this issue differently.
They say that MOST of the USA (if not all) is their land which was accupied by the people who came from OTHER continent.

Jose Angel Gultierrez - who is professor U of Texas - makes it quite clear:

"This is our homeland. We cannot—we will not—and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here.

We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."

Video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIW-BZ8oLrk

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Russia car market seen bigger than Germany...
http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=9364

[December]

They are not Hispanic immigrants, they're "illegal aliens."

So, Lasher, have you watch the video? Do you agree with the point he makes?

[December]

Interesting picture...

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/features/2005/07/images/070531mexico.jpg

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=7083&comments=1