*snort* If you apply for the job of manager in *my* town (which is about as far from the Mexican border as you can get west of the Mississippi, absent Alaskistan) and you *cannot* speak Spanish, you will not get the job, period, paragraph, NEXT! Taos? Hell. Most gringos in NM *grow up* speaking Spanish. I have a good friend who's a rare exception.

There is a phrase in the South, where both I and the gentleman in question come from. "Y'aint from around heah, are ye, boy?" Don't care of NM is technicaly south of the Macy-Dixie line, it ain't nothing like Virginia. Bin there, Dun that.

Our *ahem* friend here needs a copy of Rosetta Stone and a clue-bat up'side the head.