Race remains the prime issue of leftists who use it daily as a club against their political enemies from Washington to Ferguson MO

But as psychological identifiers go, language is more important. A person of any race can be a loyal and enthusiastic American, but someone who doesn’t speak English cannot be, because non-English speakers remain immersed in another culture.

Language carries culture, which is why Americans should reject Mexicanizers who demand that Spanish become equal to English in the United States — immigrants claiming such a right are invaders looking to overturn the American nation. The Pew graph shows an interesting difference between Hispanics and Asians regarding their willingness to integrate to American culture via language.

And Spanish is only one problem of diversity: some of the tens of thousands of dumped illegal alien kids from Central America don’t even speak Spanish, but US schools are supposed to teach a first-world curriculum to youngsters speaking indigenous languages (known in one school district as “Preliterate English Language Learners”).

Language is also the best measure of assimilation (which citizens still expect out of immigrants). The new Census data is therefore bad news for the national community, analyzed in a CIS report: One in Five U.S. Residents Speaks Foreign Language at Home, Record 61.8 million.

The Washington Times crunched the facts and their implications: