Alex Martelli wrote:

so, we're
not quite as loathed by the average redneck as the most useful and
lowest-paid ones, but neither are we as welcome as bridgeplayers &c!-).

I think the key issue here is that immigrants bring their deviant,
abominable practices and customs with them and impose them on the rest
of us here, forcing us to deal with strange, incomprehensible notions
like POLISH CLUB and GHESTEM and MEXICAN TWO DIAMONDS and FORCING
PASSES and VINJE SIGNALS and God knows what other abominations.
They've even started merging parts of our culture with ours, so that
we're starting to see things like SOUTH AFRICAN TEXAS and RUSSIAN
CHICAGO. This must be opposed by every red-blooded, patriotic American
who wishes to keep our culture pure and based on the traditional
American pillars of FIVE-CARD MAJORS, STAYMAN (*), and BLACKWOOD. We
must stop them!

(*) And just to show you how bad things have gotten, there are even
people who claim that our beloved American "Stayman" convention was
really invented by some guy with a French last name, or worse, by an
Englishman named Marx. This proves that as soon as we start letting
foreigners dictate our conventions, Marxism is just around the corner.

-- Adam