Language politics in Nashville
Voters in Nashville, Tennessee head to the polls today to decide whether English should be the only language for all government business in town. This means marriage licenses, parking tickets, and court summons could only be written and responded to in English. Reporter Blake Farmer of WPLN has been covering the ?English First” movement since the legislation was first proposed more than a year ago. He joins us from Nashville.
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