08-20-2005, 05:56 PM
Occhidiangela,Aug 20 2005, 04:34 AM Wrote:[I]ncreasing the percentage of people whose common cultural assumptions are based on a broken Papist Hacienda system is not good for America. [right][snapback]86752[/snapback][/right]In a moment of curiosity I wondered what a "papist hacienda system" may be; I first tried my dictionary, which yielded naught for the entire phrase, but "a Roman Catholic" for the meaning of the word "papist," and "a large landed estate, esp. one used for farming and ranching," for "hacienda." The meaning of the phrase a "papist hacienda system" would therefore seem to be something to do with Catholic farming; as this made little sense within the context used ("A broken papist hacienda system" means that Catholics farm poorly?), I next sought the aid of Google to help alleviate my ignorance, but it yielded nothing even close in its search return for the phrase "papist hacienda system" except a bulletin board post elsewhere by someone using the pseudonym "Angeleyes." So it would seem that if I am to know what a "papist hacienda system" means I must here ask:
What is meant by the phrase a "papist hacienda system?"