Ruben Navarrette: In Arizona, Pocketbook Deja Vu

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RACISM is bad for business.

That's the message Arizona should have gotten 20 years ago when civil rights groups organized a boycott to punish the state for its stubborn refusal to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a state holiday. The NFL pulled the Super Bowl from the Phoenix area, costing the state an estimated $100 million, and the NBA informed the Phoenix Suns that they wouldn't be considered to host the All- Star Game. By the time Arizona voters finally capitulated and approved a ballot initiative creating a holiday in 1992, convention business in the Phoenix area alone had suffered a nearly $200 million setback.

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Ruben Navarrette: In Arizona, Pocketbook Deja Vu

Now, Arizona seems intent on committing financial suicide once again - this time, over the issue of illegal immigration. After a couple of decades of looking the other way as illegal immigrants sw...

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