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Sure, immigrants are assimilating. But they're not assimilating to the self-confident America of Teddy Roosevelt, when we had a President who could denounce "hyphenated Americanism." And they're not assimilating to the self-confident America of Calvin Coolidge, who could announce, when signing a bill restricting immigration, "America must remain American." And they're not assimilating to the self-confident America of Pres. Eisenhower, who could deport illegals en masse in "Operation Wetback."

Instead, they're assimilating to an America filled with muslticulturalism, political correctness, and government largesse, which is why immigrants are MORE likely to vote for liberals than native-born Americans (according to the 2000 election returns) and MORE likely to receive government handouts than native-born Americans (according to economist George Borjas). And this change in the culture helps explain why Hispanics and Asians are beginning to form all sorts of special interest groups, modelled after the NAACP and the like, to lobby for more goodies and discrimination against white people, which is politely referred to as "affirmative action." These changes alone make mass immigration undesirable.

And that's leaving aside the immigrants coming here with unassimilable and anti-American ideas, such as the immigrants who gave us Septmber 11. (Those immigrants, by the way, confirmed the neocon argument that immigrants are doing jobs Americans don't want: not many Americans want to fly airliners into skyscrapers)

"And this change in the culture helps explain why Hispanics and Asians are beginning to form all sorts of special interest groups, modelled after the NAACP and the like, to lobby for more goodies and discrimination against white people, which is politely referred to as "affirmative action.""

Asians don't benefit from affirmative action policies, at least not in education. Furthermore, almost 40% of both Hispanics and Asians marry outside their ethnic group these days. How do you think this will affect the future of the ethnic special interest groups?

Instead, they're assimilating to an America filled with muslticulturalism, political correctness, and government largesse, which is why immigrants are MORE likely to vote for liberals than native-born Americans (according to the 2000 election returns) and MORE likely to receive government handouts than native-born Americans (according to economist George Borjas).

They vote Democrat because they associate the GOP with the massive thread from yesterday - which is again one of my main concerns with Buchanan - I really do hope the GOP establishment does everything it can do distance itself from him. Granted he's no longer a Republican (thank goodness) but people do associate the GOP with the attitudes expressed by Buchanan which is why the James Byrd ad during the 2000 campaign was so effective. It wouldn't have mattered unless people thought the accusation was credible.