And that provokes a fine and justified rant from La Shawn Barber.

The newest stats say that Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as majority-minority (the latter being majority Asian, which makes sense).

The problem with this as I see it isn't necessarily the numbers of immigrants, it is the quality. Immigrants should respect our laws, respect our culture and adopt our values. Otherwise, if they have no interest in doing these things, they should not emigrate. They should stay where they were born. Adopting our values and way of life should be part of the deal that allows them to come here.

What we have, though, is a bad neighbor to the south that is purging the lower levels of its racially stratified society by pushing them to come here however they can, to live in pockets, and never bother to assimilate into either our culture or values. These illegal immigrants so far don't seem very interested in becoming Americans. They want to be Mexicans, displaced. And that's the problem.

As anecdotal evidence, I visit a state park in Maryland frequently. We started visiting there last year. One thing we noticed right away this year was that on weekends it transforms into a Spanish-speaking mini-city. This year, the park added Spanish signs here and there and have added bilingual announcements over the loudspeaker. These are young families we are talking about; presumably the children are learning English at school and so forth. As far north as Maryland there shouldn't be a need for Spanish-language anything. Yet there is.

Maryland is one of a handful of states that are the next group to go majority-minority. Texas, California and New Mexico sort of make sense--they were, after all, once a part of Mexico. But Maryland? New York, Georgia and Mississippi aren't far behind--and none of them were ever a part of Mexico either.

Before anyone slaps me with the racist or xenophobe smear, I should remind everyone that not only am I not that, but that I created an immigrant ten years ago when I persuaded a woman entirely out of my class to marry me, who happens to be non-white and non-American. I don't have a problem with immigration per se. Skin color is as irrelevant to me as it can be. But my wife doesn't go around demanding by sheer stubbornness that the United States transform itself to cater to her culture. It's the values that matter, and that is precisely what is at risk.