I tend to agree with your assessment that the Hispanics will be the conservative force that the liberals will learn to hate in the coming years. The perception is that Hispanics drain the social services budgets in rural counties when the truth is that old white people in nursing homes , whose shifty children have used equally shifty lawyers and loose laws to grab their fortunes, are the real drain. My experiences with local Hispanics has been overall a very positive one and I would rather have a hard working, moral Hispanic as a neighbor or an inlaw than some other cultural group that does not value thrift and hardwork.
I lost a billfold once outside of my office building that contained over $200, licenses, numerious credit cards. A very unkempt Hispanic man, long greasy hair, the kind of guy you would worry about knifing you.....he found it, brought it in to the building and asked the receptionist where I was and brought it to me. I was surprised...had not known the wallet was even gone, and here the man was with it, and then he was gone as I stammered thanks.
I try to never miss a chance to tell that story as I never gave the guy a proper reward, but I try to reward him by sticking up for honest Hispanics whenever I can. I went and changed a tire for a stranded young Hispanic one night and told that story to him, too, and told him to pass it on...to do something good for someone just like that man had done for me. He was so surpised that a white man would go out of his way to help him...it was getting dark and he was out in the sticks and I wanted him to be able to get back on his way.
As we do something for the least of people, we do it for Him.
