Perhaps the library staff confused Ann Coulter with Andrei A. Sidorenko, author of The Offensive (Moscow: Voenizdat [Military Publishers], 1970), a bestseller in the defense community and among Sovietologists in the 1970's and 1980's.
Ramos made an emphatic point about percentages and numbers. He had the percentage right and eventually got the numbers right.. 40 million.
But he seemed to brush off the point.. percentages and numbers alone do not matter -- it is culture, heritage, and language. Prior to the past few decades we could count on immigrants with knowledge of at least two of the three.
That lack could be made up with the willingness to learn and adopt. But is it there? Or do way too many cling to the mores and languages of their corrupt homeland?
At least the percentages and numbers are there in federal stats.
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/infographics/foreign_born_text.pdf
America's Foreign Born in the Last 50 Years During the last 50 years, the foreign - born population of the United States has undergone dramatic changes in size, origins, and geographic distributions. This population represented about 1 in 20 residents in 1960, mostly from countries in Europe who settled in the Northeast and Midwest. Today’s foreign - born population makes up about one in eight U.S. residents, mostly immigrants from Latin America and Asia who have settled in the West and South. The Decennial Census and the annual American Community Survey allow us to trace the changes in the foreign - born population over time.
| Decade | Millions | Percentage | Europe | N America | Latin America | Asia | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1850 | 2.2 | 9.7 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1860 | 4.1 | 13.2 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1870 | 5.6 | 14.4 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1880 | 6.7 | 13.3 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1890 | 9.2 | 14.8 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1900 | 10.3 | 13.6 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1910 | 13.5 | 14.7 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1920 | 13.9 | 13.2 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1930 | 14.2 | 11.6 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1940 | 11.6 | 8.8 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1950 | 10.3 | 6.9 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1960 | 9.7 | 5.4 % | 75 % | 10 % | 9 % | 5 % | 1 % |
| 1970 | 9.6 | 4.7 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1980 | 14.1 | 6.2 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1990 | 19.8 | 7.9 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2000 | 31.1 | 11.1 % | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2010 | 40.0 | 12.9 % | 12 % | 2 % | 53 % | 28 % | 5 % |
My small town library in Texas has it listed correctly.