School officials wouldn’t say so outright, but it’s obvious the kids they feared offending were from the district’s large Latino population.Wyoming is perhaps the most Republican state in the nation; you probably wonder why this sort of PC nonsense would happen here. The explanation is that Teton County, of which Jackson is the county seat, is the only one of the state's 23 counties which routinely votes Democratic.
Jackson has a sizable Latino population working in support of the resort industry - various food service and hospitality jobs. The Kmart parking lot on a Sunday afternoon looks like Jalisco or Oaxaca.
Oddly, Kmart's checkers are mostly Eastern European kids from Romania or Moldova, on work-study visas. Jackson is a strange place - very un-Wyoming - having more in common with Sun Valley, Palm Springs or Vail. Our neighbors who don't work in Jackson rarely go there, preferring to shop in nearby Idaho.
