[presidio9]

While it gives a general overall picture of illiteracy in the U.S. I could not find on the site where it separates out native born literacy from immigrant literacy.

You might want to differentiate between illegals alians and legal immigrants. I suspect that the literacy rate among legal immigrants approaches 100%.

I found it interesting that only 15% of the population is considered to be reading on the most advanced levels. That would likely be nearly everyone here on Free Republic,

You will, no doubt, be stuned to learn that that is not the case. Check your beeber.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

the south is being kept intentionally uneducated.

[wintertime]

beeber?

Please? What is a beeber?

[joe.fralick]

"I suspect that the literacy rate among legal immigrants approaches 100%"

Legal immigrants from India and China, for example, certainly have a high rate of literacy; but third-worlders brought here by family reunification/chain migration aren't necessarily literate. Somali refugees, for the most part, aren't functionally literate. Anchor babies often grow up illiterate, and their status as citizens is perfectly legal.

We have plenty of illiterates coming here legally, courtesy of our government.