Katherine:

I don’t know if its still true but as recently as the late 90′s the Hispanic population showed the same assimilationist tendencies as previous immigrants. However, since we are in the middle of a large Hispanic immigration wave you tend only observe the newcomers. Hispanics come in, Americans come out. Polls of Hispanic immigrants continue to show that they place a high priority on their children learning and being schooled in English not Spanish.

The non-assimilation movement is sponsored by a combination of post-modern anti-western multi-cults, bureaucrats who see an opportunity for job security and the Democratic Party that would like to make Hispanics as poor and dependent as African-Americans on the Party so they get a lock on the vote. Polls now show about a 60/40 split D/R in the Hispanic electorate. That’s the same way that Italian-Americans split in 1960.