Voting on Official English Language Language Referenda in Five States: What Kind of Backlash against Spanish-Speakers?  

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Tatalovich, Raymond

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 19 no. 1 (1995), page 47-59.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/19 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Voters in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, and Florida approved referenda making English their official language. The vote by county supporting English (dependent variable) is used to assess five hypotheses: racial (Anglo vs. Spanish), ethnic (black vs. Spanish), economic (lower class vs. Spanish), political (Republican vs. Spanish), and cultural (Nativism vs. Spanish). As independent variables the author includes the percent of each county that is Spanish, black, college-educated, below poverty, and rural, its median family income and total population, and the vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984. The racial and cultural hypotheses are not validated; ethnic rivalry surfaces only in Alabama; the class hypothesis is supported by negative relationships with education level. But the political hypothesis offers the more compelling explanation insofar as support for Reagan is the most consistent predictor of voting for official English across all five states.

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