EIGHTY FOUR, Pa. - All it took was a few minutes of lush, expensive, emotional advertising during the Super Bowl to pull this little town in the far southwestern corner of Pennsylvania into the center of the national debate on immigration.
Despite the rancor surrounding the issue and the sudden attention to their hometown, many people here said Monday that they did not see the now-famous 84 Lumber ad as particularly political.
"It was sad," said Jennie Ryan, 28, a nurse from nearby Washington, Pennsylvania, who stopped for lunch at the SpringHouse restaurant, a wood-paneled cafe that sits on a working dairy farm.