Spanish-Speaking And Proud

Up in the hills of New Mexico, in Santa Fe and Taos and the towns around them, are native-born U.S. citizens whose ancestors settled there in the 1500s. And those people speak Spanish.

Add in the Native Americans whose ancestors arrived centuries earlier, and you get a picture of American heritage that doesn’t involve a whole lot of Puritans and a whole lot of English. It would be a good place for the English-first bigots who bristle at a simple buenos dias to have a look around and educate themselves, but apparently it wasn’t a good place for Larry Whitten to buy a hotel.

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