MrX
never had an intact pistachio club
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Valid point.
Are you sure that's a valid point? I'm not familiar enough with history to know the answer, but it seems to me that those immigrants tended to live in large clusters, probably just as segregated from English-speaking society, if not more, than Mexican populations are today. I'd be shocked if all of the local businesses at that time didn't conduct business primarily in the immigrants native language.
As for the government catering to the immigrants' language, well, I don't think there was nearly as much interaction with the government back then. And, if I had to guess, I'd guess that when the government needed to communicate with non-English speaking immigrants, they did what was necessary to make it happen, just like they do now.