P&P: Pentecostals and Puerto Ricans.

Some scholars have argued that many Latinos become Pentecostals in the U.S. although such a move is stigmatized by their fellow (Catholic) immigrants because it allows them to join the U.S. Protestant majority while maintaining Catholic folk practices like healing, exorcism, and whatnot.

Today I flashed back to my mother talking about being a stewardess on the New York-San Juan flights in the late 1960s. All the stewardesses hated the route because it was noisy and there was baggage everywhere, since all the Puerto Ricans would cram the overhead bins and then put suitcases by their feet and even in the aisles, so you couldn't even push the drink cart back and forth or have a moment of quiet in back if it was a bad day and you had a headache... The stews, too, would call it "the Roach Coach", and warn new stewardesses against it by talking about the time that this one Puerto Rican woman had her dead baby tied in a blanket and put in her legroom under the seat in front of her, since she was taking it home to bury it but didn't feel like checking it or have a suitcase to put it in.