One of the utmost truths of the earthly concept of immigration has found a fresh emblem in, of all places, the Heisman Trophy favorites list. It’s a reality that would have sounded implausible back in stuffier generations. On the usual list of quarterbacks in a nation obsessed with quarterbacks there stands Fernando Mendoza of Indiana, listed generally as either the front-runner or the co-favorite with Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson. Tick down just a tad to the fifth choice of the moment, and there’s Vanderbilt buzz-generator Diego Pavia.

That means two Latino quarterbacks gleam from atop the list, and that reinforces that old immigration maxim from many lands and many eras, the one about how second and third generations rather swiftly embrace the customs and the dispositions and the acce

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