Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 11, numbers 112 through 120

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INTERVIEW: Ellis Page 15 EN: So the ~xicans are the ones that give you the problems instead of the whites? BE: Right. VE: Like I said I never had ... I had a white girlfriend from the time I was in the tenth grade 'til now, she's a real good friend of mine, and we had a lot of problems with her race against her, and my race against me. I mean they'd call her Mexican-lover and they'd call me paddy-lover and things like this, you know. But we got along so good, and she lik~our culture, she studied our culture quite a bit, and like, the first time she went to church, it was twelve years later she went to church with me, to the Catholic Church, and that didn't go over very good in Monticello, because in Monticello everybody knows everybody. I mean like if you make a bad name for you in Monticello, that's it, everybody knows and they really harass you, they really put you down. Like there's a Spanish family was living in Monticello, that each of their girls has had somebody's kids, you know, and they've never been married, and they hate those girls, and they really black mark those girls, and I figured they'd paid for their mistakes, you know, and they'd really black mark them, you know, black list those girls, I feel sorry for