I have a friend, C., an American who lives in Japan and teaches English there. His roots are in Indiana, where he and his wife just went for a month-long vacation.

[T]he Mexican restaurants in Lafayette were being staffed by (illegal) Chinese, who were doing jobs illegal Mexicans wouldn't do.

And so it was. The Chinese built the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific Railroads; every small West Texas town has an Orient Hotel, and I believe that the major case law for mechanic's lien claims on real estate was the Oriental Hotel in El Paso.

When I was growing up I'd see epicanthic folds in more than a few eyes of Spanish-speaking people here, genes left here by the coolies.

If they won't vote Democrat, I'll let them camp out on my land.