When I step back and look at immigration, both legal and illegal, it seems to me we have opened the flood gates. Ya'll may think I'm crazy but I guage who is living around me by the grocery store. I shop at the evil Super Walmart, in recent years, it has become the international market. One of the Walmarts on the other side of town is just plain spanish. That's it. If you are white and go in there you are one of very, very few that speak english. The one I actually shop at, I've been going to for 14 years. It is more diverse, although still very little english. An amazing amount of muslims, full burkas and all. This has all changed in the past 4 or 5 years, I didn't choose to live in Little Mexico or Somalia. My youngest is in the 4th grade, when he started kindergarten we had 3 kids in the ESOL class, now we have 3 classrooms. I don't remember it being like that when I grew up. Sure there were immigrants but I never felt like a minority. I don't care what people call me but I like being an American in America. If I wanted to live in a foreign country I would move there.
That's the way we have guaged our area, too. My husband often refers to one walmart as the meximart. I would never send my child to the schools here now.