The Mexicans and that class of people whom I think are unfit for State government are people who were born in and have lived in this country for generations. as did their ancestors ahead of them. They are not foreign born. I never attacked the people of New Mexico on the ground that they were foreigners. They are natives of this country. I simply criticised them for the fact that they had not become Americanized. notwithstanding the fact that they were born in this country. notwithstanding the fact that their fathers and their grandfathers and their greatgrandfathers way back for generations were all born in this country they had not become Americanized as rapidly as the foreigners in our country of the first generation.
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Mexicans are unfit for state government because they have not become Americanized.