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1097:"CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS : Unflagging Controversy : Why did some protesters against Proposition 187 carry the red, white and green instead of the red, white and blue? To Latinos, it was prideful. To many Americans, it was insulting"
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659:"Protest disrupts UCLA student vote"
1165:"Lloyd Monserrat - Harbor City, CA"
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969:Greene, Robert (January 16, 2003).
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