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Hispanics who had not assimilated. well, they weren't immigrants, number one. they were people like my family who came in the 1600s, settled the state, and it is true that you can go to little towns in northern new mexico and find older people whose first language is still spanish. and by the way, it's the 17th-century version of spanish. it's not what's spoken in mexico today. hispanics are integrating. i wrote a book about this in 1991, and i did a lot of research and data on what happens. part of the problem is that it's obscured, the numbers are obscured, because we have so many new people...

Level. what's important to look at is the second generation. and for hispanics, second generation hispanics who were born here in the united states, 97% of them speak english. they attend college at rates comparable to those of whites, and they're moving into the middle class. >> what about central americans who are even poorer than mexicans? >> actually, cato institute just did a study and shows exactly the same rates. in fact, they show college graduation rates for second-generation central americans the same as that of americans overall. >> nick, you -- people by now have realized this. but...

Towards race, and we know the long and tough history there, and it's still there to this day, in a democratic country, that's still majority white two times in a row, elected barack obama. >> not forever will it be majority white. your data shows browning of america is happening. there's always fear around an immigrant wave. but your numbers show that hispanics, second generation hispanics do show higher income, go to college more, and they're growing more americanized, so your data shows we should not be afraid of the browning of america. >> absolutely. and young americans are not afraid of t...