John Derbyshire, National Review Online's resident bigot, publishes a would be smear to latinos by calling Iowa Aztlan North because in the land of " Lundqvists and Muellers", there happens to be more than 50% that go by Perez or Rodriguez.

The bigotry is mind blowing :

Aztlan North [John Derbyshire]
Incidentally, while hobnobbing with those Midwesterners at Storm Lake, Iowa—their surnames mostly taken from the Stockholm, Oslo, and Berlin phone books—I heard a couple of times the remark that in this little corner of rural Iowa, the student body in the schools is half Hispanic. The remark was passed in a polite, diffident and non-condemnatory way—of course! this is Iowa—and when I tried to probe, people just retreated into niceness ("These Mexican restaurants are really great!")

Still, I found it hard to believe, surrounded as I was by Lundqvists and Muellers. In an idle moment, however, I looked up the stats on GreatSchools.net. Sure enough, the "Student Stats" on GreatSchools for Storm Lake show percentages Hispanic as:

High school: 32
Middle School: 43
Elementary schools: 53, 66, 63, 53.

Say what you like, that is truly an invasion. Why on earth are we letting this happen?

I just read this earlier this afternoon, sent it to my e-mail lists and ran out to pick up my kids from school. Justin Cole of Media Matters jumped on the email and had it put up on their site.
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