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to Kansas and everybody was advising me to go, because we did have  Chicanos there and we didn't have any Chicanos in Iowa. So Lalo _ said "what the hell are you going to do in Iowa. Go to Kansas we have Raza in Kansas we don't have any in Iowa". I called up Drake University and they told me that "We don't have any Spanish-Speaking population in Iowa". So I talked to myself and I knew that I had to come and find out for myself whether there are any Spanish-Speaking people. I did here a stereo-type about Iowa that I would like to share  with you this morning and possibly get an indication of how types might grow. I had also an understanding of why alot of Anglo people of Iowa have a stereo-type of Spanish-Speaking population. When I got on a plane to come to Iowa, I started to think of what Iowa would be all about. I got off in Denver and changed planes and this gentleman sat beside me. All this time I had an idea that Iowa had pilgrims, Puritans, and somehow I couldn't visualize Iowa. It was something that I couldn't visualize. The population of Iowa was into farming, a farming community. The Amish had come into the national focus, so there again I had an Idea of what Iowa was all about. I knew that Iowa was Amish and when I was going to get off the plane I was expecting to see a nice little haywagon with a horse and this guy with a Puritan had on sliding them with a pitch fork. In a way that is exactly what I felt Iowa would be all about. This gentleman sitting right

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to Kansas and everybody was advising me to go, because we did have Chicanos there and we didn't have any Chicanos in Iowa. So Lalo _ said "what the hell are you going to do in Iowa. Go to Kansas we have Raza in Kansas we don't have any in Iowa". I called up Drake University and they told me that "We don't have any Spanish-Speaking population in Iowa". So I talked to myself and I knew that I had to come and find out for myself whether there are any Spanish-Speaking people. I did here a stereo-type about Iowa that I would like to share with you this morning and possibly get an indication of how types might grow. I had also an understanding of why alot of Anglo people of Iowa have a stereo-type of Spanish-Speaking population. When I got on a plane to come to Iowa, I started to think of what Iowa would be all about. I got off in Denver and changed planes and this gentleman sat beside me. All this time I had an idea that Iowa had pilgrims, Puritans, and somehow I couldn't visualize Iowa. It was something that I couldn't visualize. The population of Iowa was into farming, a farming community. The Amish had come into the national focus, so there again I had an Idea of what Iowa was all about. I knew that Iowa was Amish and when I was going to get off the plane I was expecting to see a nice little haywagon with a horse and this guy with a Puritan had on sliding them with a pitch fork. In a way that is exactly what I felt Iowa would be all about. This gentleman sitting right