purejuice

i don't want to blow off your proto-fascist note, btw. i agree with you, or those who think so. proto-fascism thrives in little towns as well as where spanish is spoken. i am keeping my eye open here for caudillism -- and have let exhibit A sort of fall apart in my brain cell. a very prominent local politician of like two generations named Manny (aren't they all?) was about to attend the opening of a torre -- a large, Quixotic windmillesque structure, the focal point and wow factor of the broad prado leading up to the ceremonial doors of the National Hispanic Cultural Center here, a big deal as Rita Moreno and Edward Olmos give money -- to be named the Manny Torre, and like literally on the day of the fiesta, he was busted for embezzling millions in state funds and sent to federal prison.
and, as i think the marxists are geniuses to point out, fascism is a reaction to modern life and may be a driving element of modernity itself.
its values are of the pueblo, and of three generations of guys playing football on the same team and working for the railroad.
the other story i wanted to know (there are several actually) was of the coach -- a 38 year veteran of texas high school football whose daddy was in the texas high school football hall of fame. oh me. and achtung. fascism, she is fascinatin'.