Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey

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So, it seems that GOP candidates have discovered the pleasures of learning a foreign language according to an article in the Christian Science Monitor. Though, I'd like to think that these guys are just expanding their horizons, it turns out that it's all a pragmatic issue: Hispanics are now the States' largest minority.

But for Republicans, language lessons seem especially important, as the ability to tap growing minority groups goes to the very future of their party.

"The Republican Party has been pretty homogeneous and white for a long time, and they are realizing that they are going to have to adapt to changing circumstances to stay in power," says F. Chris Garcia, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico.

[via Blogalization]