The South will rise again!

[Pflugerville Ag]

Eight of the ten fastest growing cities in the US are in the South.


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- More people moved to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, than to any other metropolitan area in the United States last year.
The population there increased by 162,250 between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. Atlanta, Phoenix and Houston also saw their ranks swell by more than 100,000 people each.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/26/real_estate/Metropolitan_Population/index.htm?cnn=yes

[Gravy]

Yeah, I don't think that is people moving south to Texas.......regardless of what it says, I think it is people moving north to Texas.

[Pflugerville Ag]

Yeah, I don't think that is people moving south to Texas.......regardless of what it says, I think it is people moving north to Texas.

And where would they be moving from???

[Gravy]

There is a reason that there are more Tex-Mex restaurants than any other type of restaurant (including McDonalds).

[Pumchavas28]

Yeah, I don't think that is people moving south to Texas.......regardless of what it says, I think it is people moving north to Texas.


So the recent Cold weather has nothing to do with it..... :bored:

Yeah I'd bet at least 1/2 of the population increase is probably from south.... but I'm sure if there is some kind of Stats Link, you will see several cities losing population up North as well....

[Pumchavas28]

There is a reason that there are more Tex-Mex restaurants than any other type of restaurant (including McDonalds).


You do realize it's not only Texas that had growth spirts right????? :bored:

[Pflugerville Ag]

There is a reason that there are more Tex-Mex restaurants than any other type of restaurant (including McDonalds).

These are census stats for LEGAL citizens!

[Pumchavas28]

These are census stats for LEGAL citizens!

I'm sure there is some dumb @$$ excuse as to how it's "TEX-MEX" related..... :bored:


Like I said... the weather has been getting Colder & Colder up north.... Folks get tired of it & eventually will move south....

[DCAggie]

It's coming from both directions. As for the cold weather, not sure that it's any colder. But the economy of the north is definitely getting weaker and weaker which doesn't help. Either way, I wish they'd stop coming. There's too many people here.

[Pumchavas28]

I wish more would come to Montgomery.... A population boom of more than your typical "I HATE EVERYONE" redneck could do this area some good...

There is nothing to do here & you have to drive 3 hours to do anything worth doing...

Anyone who thought Austin was a small & some what boring capitol needs to visit Montgomery... This place sucks & the population for a capitol city is horrible & the people around here are shaddy as hell.

[Gravy]

These are census stats for LEGAL citizens!


Why does population increase to Texas from Mexico automatically mean illegal? I never said anything about legality. I just know an awful lot of students and work cohorts that have moved here from south of the border. And for the record, Tex-Mex is my favorite cuisine; however, the point I was getting at is generally restaurants are pretty indicative of the population they serve.

[Pflugerville Ag]

Why does population increase to Texas from Mexico automatically mean illegal? I never said anything about legality. I just know an awful lot of students and work cohorts that have moved here from south of the border.

Because majority rules, that's why. For every legal Mexican moving to Texas from Mexico there are probably 1000 that are illegal.

[texags08]

Its all because Texas is the greatest state in all the land...

[Pumchavas28]

Its all because Texas is the greatest state in all the land...


It's a whole other Country.....

[texags08]

They want to live in a cool state that can fly its flag at the same height as the US flag...

[Pumchavas28]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm God Bless Texas! :cool:

[texags08]

:gig: yes he did...

[Pflugerville Ag]

They want to live in a cool state that can fly its flag at the same height as the US flag...

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texasflag.asp

[texags08]

damn... i got sloaned... :sad:

[texags08]

http://www.texasbikini.com/snapshots/e99aus.jpg

[texags08]

i wanted the top pic only, but it is all one image...

[DCAggie]

i wanted the top pic only, but it is all one image...

I ain't complaining.

[Loftin]

The South will rise again!

Think further South. Think "reconquista."

[PinetarAg]

Think further South. Think "reconquista."

The reconquista was Spain and Portugal basically kicking the muslims off the Iberian Peninsula....

Nothing to do with Mexico....or Latin America in general.

[Pflugerville Ag]

Pinetar just sloaned Loftin!

[Loftin]

Pinetar just sloaned Loftin!

Not really. Reconquista means "reconquer" in Spanish, which is spoken in Mexico. It's a real word that doesn't necessarily relate to one event in history.

Nice try, though.

[PinetarAg]

then why put the quotes around it if you were simply using it asjust another word and not a major world event.

"I" "guess" "we" "should" "put" "quotes" "around" "all" "words" "randomly"

[Loftin]

then why put the quotes around it if you were simply using it asjust another word and not a major world event.

"I" "guess" "we" "should" "put" "quotes" "around" "all" "words" "randomly"


I put the word in quotes because it was in Spanish. Last I checked, this was an English speaking website.

[Loftin]

The term Reconquista (in English, "reconquest") was popularized by Mexican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico) writers Carlos Fuentes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Fuentes) and Elena Poniatowska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Poniatowska) to describe the demographic and cultural reemergence of Mexicans in the Southwestern United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States).[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]
A movement hoping to grant ownership of certain land areas in the Southwestern United States to Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), Mexicans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicans), or Mexican-Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-Americans).[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)] The premise of this reconquest is an historical claim to the land prior to the presence of European-Americans. The term does not make a claim for Spaniard-Europeans[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)], but rather, for Mexicans, the majority of whom are mixed-blood and full-blood indigenous-blooded people[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)].


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista_(Mexico)

[PinetarAg]

Not really. Reconquista means "reconquer" in Spanish, which is spoken in Mexico. It's a real word that doesn't necessarily relate to one event in history.

Nice try, though.

reconquer translated to spanish directly is "reconquiste"

I don't know spanish that well and the poper verbage so it could be wrong.

I believe it is reconquest that translates to reconquista...so even if you meant it that way you were wrong in your translation....so nice try

[PinetarAg]

riiiight because I'm sure you thinking of a Mexican writers movement when you said that

[Loftin]

riiiight because I'm sure you thinking of a Mexican writers movement when you said that

When proven wrong, just claim that I was accidentally right.:laugh:
http://www.forumspile.com/owned/Owned-Wheelchair.jpg

[PinetarAg]

your own article proved me right


It was originally a jocular analogy to the Spanish Reconquista (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista) of Moorish Iberia, since the areas of greatest Mexican immigration and cultural diffusion are conterminous with northern New Spain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain) and former Mexican territories.[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]
The concept, but not the term "reconquista" itself, has been advanced by Chicano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano) nationalists of the 1970's to describe plans for the restoration of the vaguely-defined Aztec homeland called Aztlán (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztl%C3%A1n). However, other more recent Mexican Nationalist groups have supported this cause. The word does not properly apply to immigration outside territories lost by Mexico in the Mexican-American War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War) following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista_(Mexico)#cite_note-0)

[Loftin]

your own article proved me right

So the word "reconquista" was used for Mexicans in the US and for the Christian-Moor war, and the idea was used by Aztecs. I believe that gels 100% with everything I said.

[Pumchavas28]

I put the word in quotes because it was in Spanish. Last I checked, this was an English speaking website.


That was never established... It's not even in the agreement you accept when you initially sign on in the site...

:popcorn:

[Pumchavas28]

Think further South. Think "reconquista."


KInd of like White People in Alabama & Mississippi.... :popcorn:

[Pumchavas28]

Not really. Reconquista means "reconquer" in Spanish, which is spoken in Mexico. It's a real word that doesn't necessarily relate to one event in history.

Nice try, though.


Actually yeah you were... but as usuall, your pride keeps from ever admiting your wrong...

The language spoken in Mexico is Mexican... People in the US can say what ever they want, but Spanish is spoken in Spain...

I'm sure you'll do something to go out of your way & try to prove yourself right, but considering the fact that I have been to Spain & have family in Mexico, I can assure you that both Languages are not the same...

Also please save your time & effort with a smart @$$ remark about how little things are the same... In the end the 2 languages are different... If you go to Spain & use the Mexican language, little to no one will understand 1/2 of what you say...

I'll be waiting for some reply because you just can't help it, but please don't start talking about something you know little to nothing about...

[Pumchavas28]

riiiight because I'm sure you thinking of a Mexican writers movement when you said that


He wasn't... but just like he has to defend his idols of Lane & Reggie he has to defend his opinions to the death...

Post an opinion about Lane or Reggie & he'll argue with you till no end, but it's no problem for him to spout off an opinion.....

Sometimes reminds me of the women that I have worked with in the past... always with the Double Standards...:popcorn:

[Agnlaw]

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[Agnlaw]

Actually yeah you were... but as usuall, your pride keeps from ever admiting your wrong...

The language spoken in Mexico is Mexican... People in the US can say what ever they want, but Spanish is spoken in Spain...

I'm sure you'll do something to go out of your way & try to prove yourself right, but considering the fact that I have been to Spain & have family in Mexico, I can assure you that both Languages are not the same...

Also please save your time & effort with a smart @$$ remark about how little things are the same... In the end the 2 languages are different... If you go to Spain & use the Mexican language, little to no one will understand 1/2 of what you say...

I'll be waiting for some reply because you just can't help it, but please don't start talking about something you know little to nothing about...


Tu dice: Que Pasa Vato

Yo dice: Come esta usted senor (sorry not tilde available)

Let's call the whole thing off!

[Agnlaw]

zzz

[Agnlaw]

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[PinetarAg]

I bolded the parts in your article where it said it agrees with the concept....BUT NOT THE TERM RECONQUISTA

[Agnlaw]

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[Loftin]

I bolded the parts in your article where it said it agrees with the concept....BUT NOT THE TERM RECONQUISTA

The part you bolded pertained to Aztecs in Mexico, and was a separate case from the term being used by Mexican-American writers.

I've heard that term used in that context before, that's why I said it. I didn't pull it out of my ass, because "no se español." I had to have heard that term before in order to know when to use it. Otherwise, it would have been a really lucky guess to make up a Spanish word and for it to fit perfectly with the situation I used it in.


Actually yeah you were... but as usuall, your pride keeps from ever admiting your wrong...I've proven myself right, yet y'all are backtracking and trying to tell me what I "really meant." Lame. When you have to resort to that, IT MEANS YOU GOT OWNED.


The language spoken in Mexico is Mexican... People in the US can say what ever they want, but Spanish is spoken in Spain...

I'm sure you'll do something to go out of your way & try to prove yourself right, but considering the fact that I have been to Spain & have family in Mexico, I can assure you that both Languages are not the same...

Also please save your time & effort with a smart @$$ remark about how little things are the same... In the end the 2 languages are different... If you go to Spain & use the Mexican language, little to no one will understand 1/2 of what you say...

I'll be waiting for some reply because you just can't help it, but please don't start talking about something you know little to nothing about...

I'm aware of the different dialects. I had a roommate for two years from Equatorial Guniea (a nation in Africa that was a part of Spain until 1968), and he speaks Spanish like they do in Spain. He would comment all the time about how Mexicans didn't speak "a good Spanish."

However, the one word in question is "reconquista." Is that word not a part of the "Mexican" dialect? I think the fact that Mexican-American writers use it is proof that it is.


Sometimes reminds me of the women that I have worked with in the past... always with the Double Standards...There is absolutely a double standard, but a little different from what you say.

NO ONE on this site has every word of every post twisted, analyzed, nitpicked, and scrutinized like mine. Between pum, dustin, pville and pinetar, I have a whole research team checking the facts of my posts and then trying to dispute them with conspiracy theories or downright lies. I honestly don't know where it comes from or what it is about ME that gets y'all so riled up. Oh well...

[Loftin]

That was never established... It's not even in the agreement you accept when you initially sign on in the site...

:popcorn:


lol

I think we should ratify an amendment that makes English the official language of AggieFans.com.

[Pumchavas28]

I'm aware of the different dialects. I had a roommate for two years from Equatorial Guniea (a nation in Africa that was a part of Spain until 1968), and he speaks Spanish like they do in Spain. He would comment all the time about how Mexicans didn't speak "a good Spanish."

However, the one word in question is "reconquista." Is that word not a part of the "Mexican" dialect? I think the fact that Mexican-American writers use it is proof that it is.

You would think your roomate would have realized that the reason it is not the same is because of the fact that Mexico is no Spain... Same as the rest of the countries down south, none are the same & none use the same language despite Spain being the start of all of them....

I guess American's should all speak like the British now since Mexicans should speak the exact same language as Spain.... :bored:

There is absolutely a double standard, but a little different from what you say.

NO ONE on this site has every word of every post twisted, analyzed, nitpicked, and scrutinized like mine. Between pum, dustin, pville and pinetar, I have a whole research team checking the facts of my posts and then trying to dispute them with conspiracy theories or downright lies. I honestly don't know where it comes from or what it is about ME that gets y'all so riled up. Oh well...

Other than Lane's stats one time... I haven't taken the time to research anything.... Me correcting you on this thread took little to no research that my life experiences didn't show me...

Now have other's gone out of their way to prove you wrong with research??? Yes... But at least they are willing to prove something instead of just going off of hear-say.....

Also I wouldn't call it "rilled up" but more annoyed... You make BLIND comments about different issues... Lane, Reggie, what they speak in Mexico & other issues with no proof behind your OPINIONS... but you speak of your OPINIONS as though they were fact....That is what so annoying.

[Loftin]

You would think your roomate would have realized that the reason it is not the same is because of the fact that Mexico is no Spain... Same as the rest of the countries down south, none are the same & none use the same language despite Spain being the start of all of them....

I guess American's should all speak like the British now since Mexicans should speak the exact same language as Spain.... :bored:

I used the word "dialect," my roommate is the one who's snotty about "good" Spanish.


Lane, Reggie, what they speak in Mexico & other issues with no proof behind your OPINIONS... but you speak of your OPINIONS as though they were fact....That is what so annoying.

I'm not sure what Lane and Reggie have to do with this.

I never made any broad generalizations about what people speak in Mexico. I referred to the large increase of Mexicans in Texas as a "reconquista," which many Mexican-American writers do.

Read my initial comment that started a 3-page "let's try to make Loftin look stupid fest" (which, by the way, failed miserably when I proved myself right). It's not even a whole line long, nor does it present anything as fact. I just referred to Mexicans moving into Texas as "reconquista." Pinetar made a smartass comment to make me look stupid and I proved myself right. That should have been the end of it. Now, you are trying to argue with me about stuff that has NOTHING to do with what I originally posted.