Comment of the Day: John Howard Brown: Talking Points on Trump: "I came of age in 1973. However, I grew up in a manufacturing city in Northeast Ohio. I can assure you that everyone growing up in that time and place was very aware of the impact of immigration...
...Eastern and Southern European families far outnumbered long settled WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANTS like my family. I remember the scandal in my parent's church when a member refused to let his son into the house with his Italian girlfriend. I also remember that the virulently racist family down the block considered it ridiculous. BTW, my family was entirely cool with my own Italian-Hungarian American High School girlfriend. I have a grade school friend (or ex-friend) of Romanian heritage, who had a banner on her Facebook page proclaiming: "Every day that I wake up and Barack Obama is President is a bad day." I assume that she is proTrump now. I have no reason to be in touch now...
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