Bush, in this respect, was an enemy. In a statement that, as Gerstle notes, would have gotten him “tossed out of the GOP” in 2016, Bush declared in his 2000 campaign, “America has had one national creed, but many accents.” It had become “one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world”—if one stood in Miami or San Antonio or Los Angeles with eyes closed, “you could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago.” Bush, of course, was in Miami, drumming up Latino votes, when he said that, but he did not have to wear his pro-immigration stance so prominently. “For years our nation has
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