The Economist, Nov 16th 2011, 17:17 by R.L.G. | NEW YORK
IN A comment on yesterday's post about Newt Gingrich, haragan, a commenter, asks "Can Johnson elaborate on the sociolinguistics of Spanish in America? It would be good to learn something about this topic."
As it happens, one of Johnson's first posts
was on this subject. The short version: Spanish causes anxiety among
many non-Latino Americans. Many believe that while previous waves of
immigrants quickly learned English, today's Latino immigrants do not,
retaining Spanish and refusing or ignoring English, enabled by widely
available television and radio in Spanish. Read more...