Word: hispanicized
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex.--On the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis yesterday ignored the events commemorating the historic 1836 battle and campaigned among Hispanic voters, speaking in Spanish about economic opportunity.
Dukakis, who is leading in the most recent polls of the Lone Star State, delivered a reading in Spanish at a Roman Catholic mass before a largely Hispanic congregation at the San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest cathedral in the country. The ceremony is regularly broadcast across the South on a...
In a press conference afterward, Dukakis said Hispanic voters need jobs and affordable housing, not training in English, to survive economically.
But remembering the Alamo might have been political dynamite for a candidate depending on Hispanic voters to maintain his lead in the two days remaining before Super Tuesday primaries here and across the South. Dukakis has featured ads in Spanish as well as English.
A number of Hispanic leaders joined Dukakis in campaigning. They walked through the streets of San Antonio, took a trolley ride and attended a midday rally.