Imagine a Country the size of France suddenly sprouting in the middle of the United States. It is immensely rich in culture, with new ways of life, values, and world-views.It has its own heroes and its own vision of the future.Think how curious we all would be, how interested to discover who these people are and where they have come from. In Washington and on the Sunday morning news shows, politicians would certainly have strong opinions about what it all means, and pundits would be expressing their views with their usual certainty. Businesses would be planning strategies to marketto this population, and political groups would be exploring alliances. The media, of course, would be blazing with the first-person interviews and inside stories of the new arrivals, instead of the latest Beltway scandals.