Latino Immigrants Assimilating As Fast As Earlier Groups

Anti-immigrant Sentiment An American Diversity Gauntlet

By Dylan Matthews, The Washington Post Wonkblog

In 2007, the political scientists Jack Citrin, Amy Lerman, Michael Murakami and Kathryn Pearson decided to test Huntington’s theory against the available evidence about Latino assimilation. They found no evidence whatsoever that Mexican and other Latin American immigrants are assimilating more slowly than did previous waves of immigrants.

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